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 Approach: One
to one
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| Focus: Interpreting a pie graph. | |||||||
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Questions / instructions: |
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responses
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y4
1999(1995) |
y8
1999(1995) |
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1. How does Tim use most of his money? |
savings
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77(77)
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91(92)
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| 2. What does he spend the least amount on? |
magazines
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92(92)
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99(99)
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| 3. What items does he spend the same amount on? |
clothes
& food
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84(83)
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96(97)
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| 4. If Tim spent all of his clothes money on food, would he spend more on food or on savings? |
savings
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83(78)
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88(92)
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Total
score: 4
3 0–2 |
60(54)
24(30) 16(16) |
81(82)
14(16) 5(2) |
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| Commentary: For the year 4 and year 8 students, there was little change over the four years in their ability to interpret this pie graph. About 10 percent more year 4 than year 8 students had little success with this task in 1999. |
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