Intrepretation of Graphs, Tables & Maps
 : What's for Lunch
Approach: Station
136k
Resources: Graph

Questions / instructions:

 

  % responses
y4
y8

1. What food did most children have?

Fruit

90
99

2. How many children had biscuits for lunch?

15

63
98

3. More children had sandwiches than cakes.
    How many more had sandwiches?

10

27
73

Commentary:
Question 3 required students to read the graph in two different places and subtract one reading from the other. This proved too difficult for most year 4 students.


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