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Approach: Independent Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Addition and subtraction, place value.  
Resources: None.
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% responses
y4
y8
Questions / instructions:
A trip meter on a speedo shows how many kilometres a car travels.

    
1. Write what the trip meter will show if the car travels one more kilometre than:
[The trip meter and response blank was presented like this:]

 


52

 


84
2. Write what the trip meter will show if the car travels ten more kilometres than:
11
61
3. Write what the trip meter will show if the car travels one hundred more kilometres than:
8
45
4. Write what the trip will show if the car travels one thousand more kilometres than:
24
67
5. Write what the trip meter showed one kilometre before this:
34
78
6. Write what the trip meter showed ten kilometres before this:
7
52
7. Write what the trip meter showed one hundred kilometres before this:
17
68
8. Write what the trip meter showed one thousand kilometres before this:
21
68
 
Total score:
8
2
26
6–7
7
31
4–5
10
16
2–3
21
12
0–1
60
15
Commentary:
Most year 4 students showed a low level of understanding of place value, and very few succeeded when renaming was required. About 60 percent of year 8 students gave correct answers to 6 or more of the 8 components.
 
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