:Pizza Lunch
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Approach: Independent  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:     Combinations
Resources: Answer booklet
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Questions / instructions:
Each meal has one kind of pizza and one kind of drink.
 
% responses
2005 ('01)
Y4
Y8
How many different kinds of meal could be ordered?
12
14 (13)
63 (56)
Show how you work out your answer.
mulitplying numbers of options
4 (2)
21 (19)
listing possibilities systematically
14 (17)
38 (34)
listing possibilities randomly
7 (8)
5 (5)
 
Total score: 4
4 (2)
21 (19)
3
7 (7)
34 (29)
2
8 (10)
7 (9)
1
9 (11)
10 (9)
0
72 (70)
29 (35)
     

Commentary:
Substantial gains in working with combinations were seen from year 4 to year 8. Results were fairly similar in 2001 and 2005.

 
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