Writing Questions and Using Data - Kitkats

Writing Questions and Using Data - Kitkats 48 KitKat fingers are 418 KitKat fingers are The data below was obtained from the Nestle/ Rowntree website eaten every second in eaten per second world about making Kitkats in York. The figures are not all from the same the UK. wide. year, despite the fact that the cards appear to imply this, but they are within a few years. As they are all big the slight discrepancy should not make the data unrealistic and learners need to assume they are all from the same year to make comparisons. York makes 170 two In one year sales of KitKat finger bars per KitKat were worth £170 In the classroom each pair of learners would be given any 2 (or 3 minute. million. or 4) pieces of the data. They have to write a question that requires those pieces of data to answer it. They then swap questions with another pair of learners who answer the question In one year 73 million In one year 13.2 billion from a complete data set, identifying which data they used as they answer it. The pairs then get back together to compare solutions chunky KitKat bars were KitKat fingers were sold and data and which was used and so on. sold. world wide.

Alternatively all learners could have all the data cards and the teachers could ask a question and learners have to decide which In one year 600 million Each two finger KitKat cards contain the data that they need to answer the question. two finger bars of KitKat Choices can be compared between groups. bar weighs 21g. were sold in the UK. These ideas can be applied to any set of data. Some of the data from the sample assessment papers could be used or some data that is of interest to the learners. A KitKat chunky bar can A two finger KitKat bar be wrapped in contains 107 calories. 0.03 secs.