Maths Question and Our Answer

Question B

Oliver and Anamaria went to the shop.  They bought 5 packets of lollies altogether.  The packets of lollies cost $2.00 each.  How much did they spend?

First we wrote our question.  Then we read and discussed our question.  Next we decided that this was a multiplication question.  We said that the numbers that we needed to solve our Maths question were 5 and 2.

Roneeza and Mo’onia used their 2 Times Tables knowledge to solve our question.  They said,

5 X 2 = 10

And

5 lots of 2 = 10

Bryan and Angelina used their 5 Times Table knowledge to solve our question.  They said,

2 X 5 = 10

And

2 lots of 5 = 10

The rest of us used our skip counting knowledge to solve our question.  We skip counted in two’s because the packets of lollies cost $2.00 each.  We said,

2, 4, 6, 8, 10,

We concluded that Oliver and Anamaria spent $10.00 for 5 packets of lollies.