Reading hours

Reading hours

Pencil and paper
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This task is about interpreting a tally chart.
illustration: books in a library
Tupou did a survey of her class to find out how many hours they spent reading in a week.
This tally chart shows her results.
 

Number of hours

Number of people

0-4

5-9

10-14

  

15-19

    

20-24

  

25-29

  
 
 
None Very few Some Most Almost all All
 
Choose the best word(or words) from the box above to start each of these sentences.
 
a)  ____________________ of the students read less than 10 hours.
 
b)  ____________________ of the students read between 10 and 20 hours.
 
c)  ____________________ of the students read more than 20 hours.
 
d)  ____________________ of the students read 22 hours in total.
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Copyright: 
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Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
tally charts, table interpretation, data interpretation
Description of task: 
Students interpret a tally chart of the number of hours of people read in a week
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a tally chart.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (03/2000)
a)
b)
c)
d)
Some
Most
Very few
None

4 correct - difficult

2-3 correct - easy