Growing Up
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Interpret bar graph
Resources: Bar graph in work book
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Questions/instructions:  

A class has made a graph of the plants they are growing.


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% responses
2007 ('03)
y4
y8
1. How many plants are 20cm tall?
3
48 (60)
84 (88)
2. What is the height of the tallest plant?
27cm
9 (7)
40 (30)
27
5 (5)
6 (11)
24cm or 24
48 (48)
46 (50)
8
21 (30)
4 (6)
3. How many plants is the class growing?
32
14 (18)
56 (58)

Total score:
3
5 (6)
33 (30)
2
13 (17)
32 (36)
1
34 (40)
24 (25)
0
48 (38)
12 (9)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4


Year 8


Commentary:
Year 8 students were moderately successful in reading the data from a simple graph, while year 4 students had much less success. Performance in 2003 and 2007 was similar. Boys and girls performed similarly, while at year 8 level Pakeha students did substantially better than Mäori or Pasifika students.