:Missing the Point
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Approach: Independent Level: Year 8
Focus:Estimation.  
Resources: None.
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y8

Questions/instructions:

Fred used the calculator to work out 786 divided by 13.

There is something wrong with the calculator. It doesn’t show the decimal point.

Put the decimal point where you think it should go. Make it nice and black.

 

after first 2 digits
(60.461538)

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Commentary
Less than half of the year 8 students correctly identified the correct order of the magnitude for the result of this division calculation.

 
 
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