Maths Questions and Our Answers

We are learning to Create, Read and Solve Our Class Number Stories. 

We have learnt several strategies to find the answer to our Maths questions.

First we have to find the numbers that we are going to use to help us to answer our question.

Then we need to decide what kind of Maths question it is.  Do we need to use addition, subtraction, multiplication or division strategies to solve our question?

Question A

Augustine and Harley went to the shop.  They bought 5 tubs of cold chips.  The tubs of chips cost $10.00 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.

Anamaria used her skip counting knowledge to solve our question.  She skip counted in ten’s because the tubs of chips cost $10.00 each.  She said,

10, 20, 30, 40,50,

Mo’onia also used her skip counting knowledge to solve our question.  She skip counted in five’s because the boys bought 5 tubs of chips.  She said,

5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50,   

Angelina used another method to answer our question.  She used her Times Tables.  She said,

10 X 5 = 50

So the answer was $50.00

Bryan used the same knowledge and he said,

10 lots of 5 is 50

So the answer is $50

Summer also used her Times Tables to answer the question.  She said

5 lots of 10 = 50 and

5 lots of 10 = 50

So the answer is $50.00

We concluded that the boys spent $50.00 for 5 tubs of cold chips.  This was a lot of money for cold chips so we might go to another Takeaway shop next time.