Virginia Mathematics Checkpoint Assessment
MATHEMATICS 3.17
Strand: Probability and Statistics
Standards of Learning Blueprint Summary
Reporting Category
Number & Number Sense
Computation & Estimation
Measurement & Geometry
Grade 3 SOL
3.1(a-c), 3.2, 3.3(a-c)
3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
3.8, 3.9(a-d), 3.10(a-b),
3.11(a-b), 3.12, 3.13, 3.14,
3.15, 3.16
3.17(a-c), 3.18, 3.19, 3.20(ab)
None
Probability, Statistics, Patterns,
Functions, & Algebra
Excluded from Testing
Number of Operational Items
Number of Field-Test Items
Total Number of Items on Test
Number of Items
10
10
11
9
40
10
50
Virginia Mathematics SOL Test Cut Scores
Failing Scores
Test
Math 3
Math 4
Math 5
Math 6
Math 7
Math 8
Algebra I
Geometry
Algebra II
Basic
# correct
% correct
16 of 40
17 of 50
18 of 50
16 of 50
17 of 50
17 of 50
n/a
n/a
n/a
40%
34%
36%
32%
34%
34%
n/a
n/a
n/a
Passing Scores
Proficient
Minimum
Minimum
# correct
% correct
26 of 40
65%
31 of 50
62%
31 of 50
62%
28 of 50
56%
31 of 50
62%
31 of 50
62%
25 of 50
50%
25 of 50
50%
27 of 50
54%
Mathematics Checkpoint 3.17
Advanced
Minimum
Minimum
# correct
% correct
36 of 40
90%
45 of 50
90%
45 of 50
90%
45 of 50
90%
45 of 50
90%
46 of 50
92%
45 of 50
90%
44 of 50
88%
43 of 50
86%
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Checkpoint Items
1. Directions: Circle your answer. You must circle all correct answers.
Read each question below. Circle the questions that could be used to investigate
data and create a graph.
a) How many hours a week does each third grader at Harpers
Elementary School watch TV?
b) How long do brownies bake in the oven?
c) What time does each third grader at Harpers Elementary
School go to bed each night?
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2. Directions: Circle the box with the correct answer.
Read and interpret the line plot. Circle the statement that is true based on the
data.
Number of Hours Spent Watching TV by Third Graders
More students watched five hours of TV than three hours of TV.
Two students watched six hours of TV.
The most students watched either two or three hours of TV.
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3. Directions: Circle your answer.
Study the graph below. Circle from the choices in the shaded box the best title for
the graph.
Number of Plants Grown
Plant Growth in One Month
Favorite Plants
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4. Directions: Complete the chart below the graph.
Look at the pictograph. Use the information provided in the graph to complete
the chart below.
Favorite Types of Books Read by Third Graders
Types of Books Read
Number of Students
Sports
20
10
Biographies
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5. Directions: Complete the chart below the graph.
Look at the pictograph. Use the information provided in the graph to complete
the chart below.
Favorite Kind of Candy
Favorite Kind of Candy
Skittles
Number of Students
8
6
Smarties
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6. Directions: Complete the chart below the graph.
The vacation spots that students visited over the summer are shown in the graph.
Use it to complete the chart.
Summer Vacation Spots
Summer Vacation Spots
Beach
Grandma’s
Water Park
Lake
Park
Number of Students
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7. Directions: Write your answer on the blank line after each question.
Study the graph. Use it to answer the questions that follow.
Favorite Ice Cream Flavors
a) What is the title of the graph?
b) How many flavors of ice cream are given and what are they?
c) How many students like Mint flavored ice cream?
d) Which flavor did most students prefer?
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8. Directions: Circle the box with the correct answer.
Read and interpret the graph. Circle the statement that is true based on the data.
Favorite Sports
A total of 18 students like either soccer or basketball.
Five students like tennis.
Thirty students were surveyed to complete the graph.
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Checkpoint Solutions
SOL 3.17 The student will
a) collect and organize data, using observations, measurements, surveys, or experiments;
b) construct a line plot, a picture graph, or a bar graph to represent the data; and
c) read and interpret the data represented in line plots, bar graphs, and picture graphs and write a sentence
analyzing the data.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
a. Formulate questions to investigate
b. Design data investigations to answer formulated questions, limiting the number of categories for data collection to
four
c. Collect data, using surveys, polls, questionnaires, scientific experiments, and observations
d. Organize data and construct a bar graph on grid paper representing 16 or fewer data points for no more than four
categories
e. Construct a line plot with no more than 30 data points
f. Read, interpret and analyze information from line plots by writing at least one statement
g. Label each axis on a bar graph and give the bar graph a title. Limit increments on the numerical axis to whole
numbers representing multiples of 1, 2, 5, or 10
h. Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
i. Analyze and interpret information from picture and bar graphs, with up to 30 data points and up to 8 categories, by
writing at least one sentence
j. Describe the categories of data and the data as a whole (e.g., data were collected on four ways to cook or prepare
eggs  scrambled, fried, hard boiled, and egg salad  eaten by students)
k. Identify parts of the data that have special characteristics, including categories with the greatest, the least, or the
same (e.g., most students prefer scrambled eggs)
l. Select a correct interpretation of a graph from a set of interpretations of the graph, where one is correct and the
remaining are incorrect. For example, a bar graph containing data on four ways to cook or prepare eggs  eaten by
students show that more students prefer scrambled eggs. A correct answer response, if given, would be that more
students prefer scrambled eggs than any other way to cook or prepare eggs
Item
Answer/Solution
SOL/EKS
Code
1
a, c
The most students watch
either two or three hours of
TV.
3.17aa
2
3
Plant Growth in One Month
Essential Knowledge and Skills
Formulate questions to investigate
Construct a line plot with no more than 30 data points
3.17be
3.17bg
Label each axis on a bar graph and give the bar graph a
title. Limit increments on the numerical axis to whole
numbers representing multiples of 1, 2, 5, or 10
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Types of
Books Read
4
5
6
Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture
graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
Number of
Students
Sports
10
Fiction
20
Animal
10
Biographies
5
Favorite
Kind of
Candy
Skittles
M&Ms
Lollipop
Smarties
3.17ch
Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture
graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
Number of
Students
4
8
6
4
Summer
Vacation
Spots
Beach
Grandma’s
Water Park
Lake
Park
3.17ch
Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture
graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
Number of
Students
8
10
4
6
2
3.17ch
7a
Favorite Ice Cream Flavors
3.17ch
7b
5; mint, vanilla, strawberry,
chocolate, and peach
3.17cj
7c
2
3.17ch
7d
Vanilla
3.17ck
8
A total of 18 students like
either soccer or basketball.
3.17ci
Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture
graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
Describe the categories of data and the data as a whole
(e.g., data were collected on four ways to cook or prepare
eggs  scrambled, fried, hard boiled, and egg salad 
eaten by students)
Read the information presented on a simple bar or picture
graph (e.g., the title, the categories, the description of the
two axes)
Identify parts of the data that have special characteristics,
including categories with the greatest, the least, or the
same (e.g., most students prefer scrambled eggs)
Analyze and interpret information from picture and bar
graphs, with up to 30 data points and up to 8 categories,
by writing at least one sentence
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