Work It Out (Y4)
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Approach:  One to one
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Level: Year 4
Focus: Computation strategies  
Resources:
Card
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Questions/instructions:
15 x 4 = 60
16 x 4 =
 

Hand card to student.
This card tells you that 15 times 4 is 60.
Use this fact to work out 16 times 4.

 
% responses
2009 ('05)
y4
1. Tell me what you think the answer is. 64 47 (51)  
2. Now tell me how you worked it out.    
    prompt: Can you explain that a bit more to me?    
explanation showing understanding that the answer must be 4 more than 60 41 (39)  
another valid strategy that made use of information that 15 × 4 = 60 6 (4)  
tried to directly calculate 16 × 4 (i.e. did not make use of 15 × 4 = 60) 6 (12)  
any other response, including unclear explanation 47 (45)  

Total score:
4
40 (38)  
3
3 (2)  
2
9 (13)  
1
3 (6)  
0 45 (41)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4


Commentary:
About half of the year 4 students used an efficient number strategy to attempt to solve this task. Fifteen percent more boys than girls adopted such a strategy.