Students' pets 0 Overview Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Working with Students Further Resources This task is about reading information off a graph. The students of Te Kura o Kōwhai each have one pet. These pets are shown in the graph below. Pets of Te Kura o Kōwhai Students Question 2Change answer a) Which is the most common kind of pet? Question 2Change answer b) How many students have a fish? Question 2Change answer c) Which pet do 35 students have? Question 2Change answer d) Altogether, how many students are there at Te Kura o Kōwhai? Level: 3 Curriculum info: Maths, Statistics, Statistical literacy Keywords: pictographs, graph interpretation Description of task: Students interpret a pictograph to answer questions about a classroom investigation. This pictograph has a key. Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Patterns and relationships, sets 4-5 within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (12/1998) a) Cat easy b) 30 easy c) Dog very easy d) 160 easy Diagnostic and formative information: Common error Likely reason b) 3 Each picture taken to represent 1 rather than 10 animals. d) 17 (or 16) Each picture taken to represent 1 rather than 10 animals and "half" picture to represent 1 (or ½ ) an animal. d) 50 Adds the five 10's in the key. City spending School transport Ages of people Time on homework I Pulse rates House addresses How many pets? Toy car collections
