:He Haerenga Motukä
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Approach: Station  
Focus:   Reading scales, calculating rates
Resources:  Mahere; he tapanga aho; ruri
Kupu: tere toharite = average speed (tau waenganui o te tere)
Questions/instructions: 

Titiro ki te mahere e whakaatu ana i te puku o
Te Waipounamu. Tuhia ö whakautu ki ngä pätai.

Whakamahia te ruri me te tapanga aho mënä
e hiahiatia ana.

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% responses
1. E hia manomita (km) te tawhiti mai i Timaru ki ötautahi (Christchurch)?
 

150

41

140 – 149 or 151 – 160

15
E taraiwa ana a Mäkere mai i töna käinga i Westport ki Hokitika.
E 90 manomita i te häora (km) te tere toharite o tana haere.

2. E hia te tawhiti o tana haere i te paunga o te 20 meneti?
 

answers 30 with or without correct units

17

uses correct units (km)

41
3. I te paunga o te haurua (1/2 ) häora, kua tae atu ia ki hea?

 

Punakaiki

20
4. E hia ngä häora/meneti kia tae atu a Mäkere ki Hokitika?

 

1 hour and 20 minutes / 80 minutes / one and a third hours

4

Commentary:
Approximately half of the students demonstrated a correct approach to using the scale of a map to calculate a distance.

 
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