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Summer Jobs: Reading Change

Interpret changing rates, pauses, and graph shapes in summer-job situations, then sketch graphs from mowing and babysitting stories.

Grade 8MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to8.F.B.5

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 13 questions
  • Classroom-ready

Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 8
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students describe increases, decreases, and constant intervals in graphs of two related quantities.
  • Students compare rates of change using the steepness of graph segments.
  • Students sketch graphs that represent changes described in summer-job stories.

How to use

Have students identify both axes before answering. Use the final section to check whether students can translate a story into a graph.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

8.F.B.5

Describe how two quantities relate by reading a graph, such as where it rises or falls, and sketch a graph from a story.

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Summer Jobs: Reading Change

Interpret and sketch graphs about mowing lawns and babysitting.

Mowing Progress

Use the graph for questions 1–5. Each strip is an equal-sized section of lawn. Connected straight segments model the work between marked times.

01234567812345678Time (minutes)Strips left to mow
1.
Which work log matches the graph from minute 0 through minute 4?
  • A. Ari mows four strips, then makes no mowing progress.
  • B. Ari waits two minutes, then mows four strips.
  • C. Ari mows eight strips, then makes no mowing progress.
  • D. Ari mows four strips, then mows four more strips.
2.
Ari texts the customer when only two strips remain. Use the straight segment to determine when this happens.

The text is sent   minutes after work begins.

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