Sports played

Sports played

Pencil and paper
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This task is about creating a pie graph from information in a strip graph.

 

This strip graph shows the sports played by 80 children at St. Clair School.

The size of each segment represents the number of players.

 

a)
How many children played each sport?

Golf: ______   Netball: ______   Hockey: ______   Rugby: ______   Soccer: ______
 
b)
Using the circle below, draw a pie graph to show the numbers playing each sport.
 
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
 
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
pie graphs, strip graphs, graph construction, graph interpretation
Description of task: 
Students interpret information presented on a strip graph and then present the same information in a pie graph.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to complete a pie graph.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
 
Y8 (11/1997)
a) Golf - 10
Netball - 10
Hockey - 20
Rugby - 10
Soccer - 30		 4-5 correct - moderate

1-3 correct  - easy
b)

[Accept any order of the sports. Accept if graph approximately correct. Accept if graph consistent with answer to a).]

 4-5 correct -  moderate

1-3 correct - very easy