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Approach: Level:Focus:Resources:

Approach: Level:Focus:Resources:

Houses

Station Year 4 and year 8

Pictures numbered 1 to 5, house plan.

Understanding a house plan and relating it to the house’s appearance.

Commentary:Only 24 percent of year 4 students succeeded with both tasks, compared with 52 percent of year 8 students.

Questions/instructions:

Look at the graph showing how far some vehicles went in one hour.

1. Which vehicle was the fastest? car 96

2. How far did the boat go? 50 km 61

50 21

3. How far did the motor bike go? 65 km 31

65 8

4. How much farther did the boat go than the tractor? 30 km 29

30 6

Total score: 6–7 19

4–5 23

2–3 33

0–1 15

Travel Times

Station Year 4

Interpreting a horizontal bar graph.

Graph

Questions/instructions:

1. Look at the fi ve pictures of houses. One of these pictures matches the plan. Record the number of the picture.

picture 2 49 70

2. If your bedroom is room 6, which room will you go through to get tothe master bedroom?

room 1 (living room) 45 68

Total score: 2 24 52

1 45 34

0 31 14

% responses y4 y8

% responses y4