Interpretation of Graphs, Tables & Maps
 : Jelly Beans
Approach: Stations
136k
Resources: Plastic bag containing 6 blue, 4 green and 2 white jelly beans;
                      incomplete pie graph and text.

Questions / instructions:
There are 12 jelly beans in the bag.
Show how many there are of each colour as a pie graph.

 
  % responses
y4
y8

Format:

pie graph
other interpretable

37
40
94
4

Details 3

sectors
labelled correctly
sector sizes correct

16
29
10
85
88
73
Commentary:
It is not surprising that most year 4 students did not appear to have learned how to construct a pie graph. Some of their efforts were quite creative! (Year 4 examples: Jelly beans pie graph).
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