School rubbish

School rubbish

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
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This task is about interpreting data and making recommendations.
All 10 rubbish bins at Waikōwhai Intermediate are being replaced. The Tumuaki asked some students to do a survey for 2 weeks about rubbish around the school.
Here are their results.
School Rubbish Survey
Area of School
Total number of supermarket bags filled with rubbish over 2 weeks
Adventure Playground
20
Netball Court
11
Field
20
Lunch Area
22
Office Area
9
Under the Trees
18
TOTAL
100
 
a)
 
Use the information from the table above to complete the report form below for the Tumuaki.  
 
Report to the Tumuaki on Rubbish Survey
 
Area(s) with lots of rubbish:   
 
 
Area(s) with less rubbish: 
 
 
 
b)
 
Now complete the table below to suggest how many of the 10 bins should be placed in each of these areas of the school.
Area of School
Number of bins to be placed
Adventure Playground
 
Netball Court
 
Field
 
Lunch Area
 
Office Area
 
Under the Trees
 
TOTAL
 
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
table interpretation, rubbish, key competencies
Description of task: 
Students write a report on a table of data and make recommendations from their report.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a frequency table, and use the conclusions to allocate resources.
 
Key competencies
This resource involves writing a report based on information in a table. This relates to the Key competency: Using language, symbols and text.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (11/2001)

a)

A minimum of:

Area(s) with lots of rubbish:  Lunch Area
Area(s) with less rubbish: Office Area.

The remainder of areas can be listed in either category providing the relative order of the areas remains consistent with the amount of rubbish.

very easy

b)

A total of 10 bins distributed, regardless of whether
10 is recorded in the Total row of the table.

Fair distribution of bins based on

  • table of survey data, and/or
  • total recorded in b).

E.g.,

Area of school Number of bins
Adventure Playground 2
Netball Court 1
Field 2
Lunch Area 2
Office Area 1
Under the Trees 2
Total 10

NOTE: Do not accept a copy of the original survey table.

easy

 
easy