Shopping List (Y4 & Y8)
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Approach:  Station
ACCESS
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Money computations  
Resources:
Picture, calculator, answer booklet
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Questions/instructions:
Stationary Savings

You have an advertisement from a shop that tells you the prices of some stationery.
Here is a shopping list. Work out how much this stationery will cost. You can use a calculator if you want to.

 
  % responses
2009 ('05)
 
% responses
2009 ('05)
y4 -
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y8
YEAR 4:
Shopping List
1 fibre tip pen
1 refillable clear book
1 craft punch
1 packet of crayons
    YEAR 8:
Shopping List
2 fibre tip pen
1 refillable clear book
1 craft punch
2 packet of crayons
   
1. This stationery will cost:     1. This stationery will cost:    
$12.96 28 (35)   $17.44
  47 (54)
$11.96 – $12.95 or $12.97 – $13.96 36 (31)   $16.44 – $17.43 or $17.45 – $18.44
  22 (19)
2. You have $20 to buy this stationery.
How much change would you get?
    2. You have $20 to buy this stationery.
How much change would you get?
   
$20.00 minus answer to question 1 37 (29)   $20.00 minus answer to question 1
  70 (75)
within $1.00 of $20.00 minus
answer to question 1
22 (16)   within $1.00 of $20.00 minus
answer to question 1
  18 (15)

Y4 Total Score: 4 9 (9)   Y8 Total Score: 4
  38 (46)
3
26 (19)   3
  23 (18)
2
30 (35)   2
  22 (24)
1
11 (13)   1
  8 (6)
0 24 (24)   0   9 (6)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4


Year 8


Commentary:
Quite a lot of year 8 students forgot to double the cost of the pens and crayons, and computational errors were reasonably common at both year levels. There was no meaningful change of performance from 2005 to 2009. Mäori students performed similarly to Pakeha students, as did year 8 Pasifika students.