Numeracy
History
Chronology
Animal yeah/nah
100
The number of whiteboard markers that don't work properly anymore have been counted in each class in the school. The data is shown below:
6, 17, 4, 7, 13, 15, 16, 9, 10, 10, 8
a) What is the mode? (100 points)
b) What is the range? (100 point)
c) What is the median? (200 points)
d) What is the mean? (300 points)
Show on board
Mode: 10
Range: 13
Median: 10
Mean: 10.5
100
If we had this 3000 year old sword in front of us, would it be a primary or secondary source?
Primary
100
How many years are in a century?
100 years
100
A Chinese zoo advertised encounters with rare wildlife, including these penguins.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - if you look VERY closely, you'll notice these are inflatable, plastic toys.
200
Say this amount of money:
$13,950,430,678.43
13 billion
950 million
430 thousand
678 dollars and
43 cents
200
True/ false
Secondary sources are artefacts or texts that are original, first hand accounts or that were created at the time an event happened
FALSE
This describes primary resources
200
In the phrase 204 BCE, what does BCE stand for?
Before Common Era
200
An Italian circus claims this is a panda.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a painted dog.
300
Roughly how many Year 8 students have blue eyes according to this chart?
Between 25 and 30 (~28)
300
Spell h_____________
historical
300
True or false
2019 BCE is longer ago than 1023BCE
TRUE
300
An Egyptian zoo claims this is a zebra.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a donkey painted with black and white stripes.
400
Roughly how many years ago was 7,000 BC (also known as BCE)?
a) 7,000
b) 9,000
c) 72,000
2023 AD --> Year 0 = 2023 years
Year 0 ---> 7,000 BC = 7000 years
2023 + 7000 = 9,023 years
400
What type of source would this instagram post be?
Secondary
400
If 58AD is in the 1st century, then 1754AD is in the ___________________ century.
18th
400
A Chinese zoo labels this as an "African lion". Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a Tibetan mastiff dog. It barked at zoo visitors, giving the game away.
500
The following graph shows the colour of vehicles involved in "total loss collisions" (where vehicles get fully written off)
a) what is the mode category (most common colour)?
b) what is the median number of vehicles involved in crashes?
c) what is the mean number of vehicles involved in crashes?
Mode: green
Median: ~37
Mean: ~36
500
In the following sentence, locate the independent and the dependent clause.
Because they are first hand accounts of an event, primary sources provide important historical evidence.
Because they are first hand accounts of an event
- dependent clause
Primary sources provide important historical evidence.
-independent clause
500
This tablet is dated from 1250 BCE, roughly how old is it?
It is roughly 3200 years old
500
Is this a real sunbear or a human in a bear costume?
No one knows!! All answers correct