6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Science

Fiction

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4

Sports

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Biography 1 8

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Mystery

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Use the circle graph titled Teenager’s Weekend.

17. How many times greater is a teenager’s television and movie
    time than his or her shopping time?


18. On graph paper, construct a different kind of appropriate graph
    that shows the number of hours (not the fractional part) that
    a teenager spends on each activity in four weekends.
    Give your graph a title and label all of its parts.

Use the circle graph at the right.

8. There are 64 students in the sixth grade Sixth Graders’ Favorite Books
   at Whitman School. How many favor
   mystery books?


9. How many sixth graders chose
   science fiction books?


10. What fractional part of the sixth graders
    prefer books that are notscience fiction?


11. How many more sixth graders chose
    mystery books than sports books?


12. Which two types of books do one 13. Explain how the circle graph would
    fourth of the sixth graders favor? differ if 8 of the sixth graders chose
    Which two types do three fourths science fiction books instead of
    of the sixth graders favor? mystery books.

Use the circle graph at the right.

Teenager’s Weekend

14. About how many weekend hours do
    teenagers spend playing sports?


15. About how many more weekend hours do
    teenagers spend reading and doing
    homework than they spend eating?


16. To which two sets of activities do
    teenagers devote the same amount of
    weekend time? how much time?

Playing Sports

Television/

Movies Homework/

Reading

Telephone/

Computer

Chores

Eating

Shopping 241 1

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