Grade level: 5th – 6th grades
Skills: Line graphs
Related environmental issues: Others
Throughout history, there have been a number of diseases that have spread rapidly throughout much of the world such as smallpox, tuberculosis, black death, swine flu, and HIV/AIDS. These pandemic diseases have often killed millions of people.
The number of people who is affected by these pandemic diseases sometimes goes up and down for a couple of times like waves. The line graph below shows how many people died from swine flu in England between 1918 and 1919.
- When did swine flu cause the largest number of deaths in England? A) July 1918 B) November 1918 C) January 1919 D) March 1919
- When did swine flu cause the second largest number of deaths in England? A) July 1918 B) November 1918 C) January 1919 D) March 1919
- How many waves are there?
- When swine flu pandemic returned as the second wave, was it more severe or less severe? Explain.
Source: European Center of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Retrieved form: Dworkin G, (2009) WHO moves closer to pandemic declaration. Daily Kors.
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Factful Environmental Math Problems (2020)
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