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Approach:  Independent
ACCESS
Level: Year 8
Focus: Enlargement  
Resources:
Ruler
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Questions/instructions:

Here is a design made on squared paper.

 
  Original size
 
% responses
2009 ('05)
y4
y8
1. Make the design with lines twice as long as the original [grid paper supplied].
   
shape was reproduced
78 (83)
all lengths were doubled (all three squares) 37 (33)

Total score:
2
  37 (33)
1
41 (51)
0 22 (16)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 8


Commentary:
Most students reproduced the shape, but only 37% doubled its size accurately. Performance was very similar in 2005 and 2009.