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responses
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y4
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| 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. |
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| 1. What is the farmer asking you to do? |
find
total number of cows (add up all the cows)
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24
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37
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find
how many cows will be in the yard
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45
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46
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| 2. What information does he give you to work this out? |
the
number of cows in each place
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37
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57
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3. What information does he give you that you don’t need for working out the answer? |
The
number of dogs, deer and sheep in various places
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all
three
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23
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41
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two
of three
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20
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32
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one
of three
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14
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9
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“other
animals”
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3
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3
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| The
farmer wants to know how many cows there will be in the yard. |
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| 4. How would you work out the answer? |
add
up the three numbers for cows
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26
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59
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| Give the student pencil, calculator, and recording sheet. | ||||||||||||||
| 5. Now try to work out the answer. You can use any of these things. |
Adding
numbers:
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using
the calculator
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68
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55
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using
pencil/paper
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23
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38
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mentally
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7
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6
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| 6.
What is the answer? |
correct
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48
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73
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No commentary for this task. |
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