Transport to school

Transport to school

Pencil and paper
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This task is about reading information from a bar graph and calculating percentages.

Anne carried out a survey to find out how each of the Year 8 students came to school in the morning.

Here are her results.

How Year 8 Students Came to School



a)
How many students came by car? __________

b)
How many students came by bus? __________

c)
How many Year 8 students did Anne survey? __________

d)
What percentage of students cycled to school? __________ %
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Levels:
3, 4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
bar graphs, graph interpretation, percentages
Description of task: 
Students answer questions and calculate a percentage related to a bar graph of the ways students travel to school.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a bar chart.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 4
Statistical investigations, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 
Y8 (05/1998)
a) 17 very easy
b) 19 very easy
c) 80 easy
d) 25
[Also mark correct if percent has been correctly calculated from answer in c).]		 difficult

 

Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely reason
a) 16 1/2 Misinterprets data between the gridlines of the graph.
b) 18 1/2 Assumes the total number of students is the maximum number on the y-axis.
c) 79 Confuses number of students with percentage.