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100 People
This task is designed to assess how well students understand applying proportional reasoning to humanitarian statistics.
In the 1990s researchers calculated that if there were just 100 people in the world
- There would be 20 children
- 25 people would not have food and shelter
- 17 people would speak Chinese
- 8 people would speak English
The world population is given, together with information on other facts, such as how many people live in the USA. The task involves calculating further facts to add to the ’100 people’ list.
This task is from the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, a collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Shell Centre team at the University of Nottingham. A full rubric is given for the task, together with examples of student work and suggestions for helping students overcome misconceptions. Further information on the collection is given here.
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