:Problems (Y8)
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Approach: One to one  Level: Year 8
Focus:   Number strategy
Resources: 4 problem cards, recording book
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Questions / instructions:

Follow the number problems as I read them to you. You can write in the recording book to help you work them out if you want.
Hand recording book and pencil to the student. Hand and read card 1 to the student.
   
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Y8
1. What is your answer to this problem?
$42
34
 
x $30
  
[61]
2. Tell me how you worked it out.
combination of methods
 
10
Tim and Jay each have $12 and Sharon has $18. How much money have they got altogether?
addition
 
88
subtraction
 
0
multiplication
 
1
division
 
1
strategy showing how numbers were combined
 
43
Hand and read card 2 to the student.    
3. What is your answer to this problem?
$72
 
73
4. Tell me how you worked it out.
combination of methods
 
21
Josh earns $18 a week cleaning cars after school. How much will he earn in 4 weeks?
addition
 
18
subtraction
 
0
multiplication
 
54
division
 
0
strategy showing how numbers were combined
 
33
Hand and read card 3 to the student.  
5. What is your answer to this problem?
12
 
61
6. Tell me how you worked it out.
3 * 3 = 9 and 4 * 3 = 12
 
37
In a fruit salad there are 3 apples for every 4 oranges. If a fruit salad has 9 apples, how many oranges are needed?
9 ÷ 3 = 3 and 4 * 3 = 12
 
9
any other valid strategy
 
14
Hand and read card 4 to the student.  
7. What is your answer to this problem?
14
 
11
8. Tell me how you worked it out.
10 is of 15 and * 21 = 14
 
3
It takes 10 pizzas to feed 15 people. How many pizzas does it take to feed 21 people?
any other valid strategy
 
7
Total score:
5
 
4
 
4
 
23
3
 
32
2
 
26
1
 
13
0
 
1
Commentary:
Students were able to complete the simpler problems but had difficulty with problems involving ratios or subtlety in the framing of the problem.
 
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