Monday's Temperatures
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Approach: Independent Level: Year 8
Focus: Constructing a graph
Resources: Ruler, thermometers and blank grid in work book
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Questions/instructions:  

The thermometers show the temperature outside at different times of the day.

Make a line graph to show the temperatures. Write labels on your graph.

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% responses
y8
Appropriate title:
temperatures outside
1
temperatures
8
Appropriate qualification in title:
different times of the day (Monday) mentioned in title
6
different times mentioned in title
0
Position of title:
above graph
8
below graph
0
Bottom axis (time):
appropriate axis label and all five times appropriately given (am/pm not necessary)
33
approriate axis label, but not all 5 times appropriately given
2
all times given, but no appropriate axis label
51
Side axis (temperature):
appropriate axis label and appropriate numbering
38
 
appropriate axis label, but not appropriate number labelling
4
 
appropriate number labelling, but no appopriate axis label
31
Drawing of graph:
6.00am –
5 marked correctly
72
9.00am –
7 marked correctly
73
12:00pm –
18 marked correctly
66
3.00pm –
23 marked correctly
67
6.00pm –
12 marked correctly
71
Line drawn:
(i.e. marks connected up with line)
yes, tidily between marked points
44
yes, but quite roughly
21

Total score:
14–18
7
11–13
23
8–10
23
5–7
25
0–4
22
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 8
Commentary:
As was found with other relatively unstructured tasks, many students failed to provide appropriate labels for their graph and its axes. The data points were more commonly recorded correctly. Almost half of the Mäori students had very low scores.