Math POD Student Workbook

SAUSD CAHSEE Math Problem of the Day - Week 2Steps to answer Bar Graph questions:1. Determine what the question is asking. Look forwords like true or false.2. Look at each choice and use the graph to determineif the statement is true or false. If looking for a truestatement then cross off any statements that arefalse. Also, look at the easiest statements first.Example:Day 1(CAHSEE Math Released Item 52 )Determine if each answer is true or false.A. Team 3 is the gray bars. In Year 1 they came in secondbut in Year 2 they came in third.“A” is __True or __ FalseB. Three calculations would need to be done to solve thisso let’s skip it and see if one of the other statements are true.C. In Year 4 Team 3 won more Team 1.“C” is ___True or ___ FalseD. Team 2 (black bars) did increase the number of winseach year so “D” is ___True or ___False.Since you have determined that either A, C, or D is true youdo not really need to do the calculation for B.ANSWER: The correct answer is _____.ANSWER:Laura Westermeier, Ed.D. Fall, 2007Educational Services, SAUSD Week 2 – Student - Page 1 of 5