: Ngä Kau a Haki — Jack’s Cows
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Approach:   One to one
Focus:     Analysing a task and adding.
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Resources:     Comic strip card, calculator, recording book.
Questions / instructions:
Place comic strip in front of student.
Here is a maths problem about a farmer and his farm animals. It is written as a comic strip. Follow the words as I read it to you.
Read comic strip to student.

Whakatakotongia te waituhi whakakata i mua o te äkonga.
Anei tëtahi rapanga Pängarau mö tëtahi kaiahuwhenua me äna kararehe. I tuhia hei waituhi whakakata. Me whai haere i ngä kupu i ahau e pänui ana.
Pänuitia te waituhi whakakata ki te äkonga.

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GEd
MI
1. What is the farmer asking you to do?
He aha te pätai a te kaipämu ki a koe?
find total number of cows
(add up all the cows)
27 29
find how many cows will be in the yard
 49 47
2. What information does he give you to work this out?
He aha ngä möhiotanga kua hoatu e ia ki te äwhina i a koe?
the number of cows in each place
47 30
3. What information does he give you that you don’t need for working out the answer?
He aha ngä möhiotanga kua hoatu e ia engari kähore he take mö te äwhina i a koe ki te whakaoti pätai?		    
The number of dogs, deer and sheep in various places:
all three
 32 14
two of three
29 11
one of three
10 8
“other animals”
4 3
The farmer wants to know how many cows there will be in the yard.
Kei te hiahia te kaipämu ki te möhio e hia ngä kau ki roto i te iari [yard]. 		   
4. How would you work out the answer?
Ka pëhea tö whakaoti?
add up the three numbers for cows
43 17
Give the student pencil, calculator, and recording sheet.
Hoatu he pene räkau, he tätaitai me te pepa tuhinga ki te äkonga.		    
5. Now try to work out the answer. You can use any of these things.
Mäu e whakaoti. Whakamahia ngä taputapu nei ki te äwhina i a koe.
Adding numbers: using the calculator
42 73
using pencil/paper
49 22
mentally
8 5
6. What is the answer?
He aha te otinga?
correct
 70 81
Commentary:
The results achieved by Mäori students in general education (GEd) settings and students in Mäori immersion (MI) settings were not statistically significantly different.
 
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