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Lights, Camera, Action Activity Sheet
McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 6, Chapter 3
Name: Date:
Lights, Camera, Action
Family Motion Pictures
http://www.familymotionpictures.com/merch/
The movie business is big business. Look at some statistics to see how it has
grown over the last 20 years or so.
- Click Family Motion Pictures.
- Read the first paragraph to find information about the cost of making movies.
- Use this information to help you complete the activities below.
- Make a pictograph, a bar graph, and a line graph to show the average cost
per film for each year from 1980 through 1992. For each graph, label the vertical
axis Millions of Dollars and the horizontal axis Year. For the
pictograph, include a key showing what each picture symbol represents. Title
each graph Average Cost of Making a Movie.
- Look at the graphs. In which year was the average cost per film double what
it was in 1981?
- Look at the graphs. Describe how the cost of making films changed over the
years shown.
- Which graph do you think does the best job of representing the data? Why?
- Look again at the data from 1980 through 1992. Between which two years was
there the greatest increase in the average cost per film? What was the amount
of this increase?
- Based on the data from 1980 through 1992, predict the average cost per film
for 1993. Explain your prediction.
Math at Home
Today I explored a Web site that gave information
about the movie business. I worked with statistics showing the average cost
of making a movie during different years, and created different types of graphs
using this data. Then I interpreted the information in the graphs. I figured
out that, from 1980 through 1992, the greatest increase in the average cost
per film occurred between the years
and .
The amount of this increase was
million dollars!
You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to
show you other Web sites.
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