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Friday, 15 May 2015

Solving Word Problems

During Term 2 Room 12 have been doing addition. We had 5 strategies. Each person had to make up their own word problem and choose one strategy.

Strategy 1 -  Stranded Place Value
Strategy 2 - Tidy numbers same compensation.
Strategy 3- Increase and decrease
Strategy 4- Place Value Partitioning
Strategy 5- Combine compatible Numbers
Strategy 6- Use algorithm

Ten bottles of water have 550 litres, another five  bottles have 450 litres and the last bottle of water have 8000 litres. How many litres were there altogether?


550+ 8,000 + 450


= (550+450)+ 8,000


= 8,000+1,000

= 9,000 litres of water

Can you guess which strategy I used?




1 comment:

  1. Great work Estah! I really liked how you showed me how to use the strategy. Is this strategy easy for you? Because I have trouble figuring how it works.

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