Waiting time

Waiting time

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about creating a dot plot.

This chart shows the number of minutes customers at Clothing Mart had to wait to be served.

 

Name of customer

Number of minutes

Sharon
Stephanie
Craig
Thomas
Nikki
Vani
Sefa

 4
6
5
8
8
4
8
 
Finish the dot plot below to show the information from the chart. Sharon's time has already been done for you.
 

Number of minutes customers had to wait
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 


Time in minutes

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
dot plots, graph construction
Description of task: 
Students complete a dot plot from a table of data about waiting time in a shop.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to construct a graph from a frequency table.
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)


all correct -
moderate

1-2 errors -
very easy
 
NOTE: Accept if the points are labelled.