Max Maths, Year 5, Work Book, Reading and constructing graphs

The 'Max Maths, Year 5, Work Book' provides a series of practical exercises on reading and constructing graphs, under the umbrella of data handling. One of the tasks involves interpreting a line graph that represents the changes in Jade's savings account over a year. Students are asked to pinpoint the month with the lowest savings, identify the amount saved in specific months, determine the period of highest savings growth, and deduce from the data when Jade might have made a significant purchase. The activities are designed to enhance the pupils' ability to extract and analyse information from graphical data, as well as to apply their understanding of concepts such as mode and comparison of values.

Additional exercises in the workbook include analysing attendance at a sports carnival through a line graph, which shows the fluctuation of crowd numbers throughout the day. Students must identify specific attendance figures at given times, determine the mode number of attendees, and infer the event's closing time. Another graph depicts the minutes Toby spent on homework over a week, inviting students to fill in a table based on the graphical data. The workbook also presents a scenario where Samir measures the temperature drop of water in a freezer, asking students to calculate temperature changes over time. Moreover, there's an exercise on a noodle shop's sales, where pupils are tasked to observe and explain sales trends at different times of the day. Finally, a zoo's visitor numbers are graphically represented, challenging students to perform comparative analysis and make assumptions about the zoo's operations based on the data provided.