Addition examples 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about using an algorithm to add numbers. Write your answers in the boxes. You can use the remaining area to do your working. 1. 5 + 8 2. 6 3 8 7 + 4 3. 42 + 35 4. 87 + 56 5. 237 + 436 6. 5607 3294 6358 + 7286 7. 36 + 117 + 6 + 23 + 240 = Task administration: This is a NEMP trend task. It was trialled in both 1997 and 2001. The data for both years is on the scoring page. Level: 4 Curriculum info: Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies Keywords: nemp, addition Description of task: For this NEMP task students performs a series of increasingly difficult addition problems presented in vertical algorithms. Answers/responses: Y8 (09/1997) Y8 (09/2001) 1. 13 95% 97% 2. 28 91% 90% 3. 77 96% 96% 4. 143 90% 92% 5. 763 90% 89% 6. 22 545 67% 69% 7. 422 57% 62% Total score 7 32% 40% Total score 6 39% 33% Total score 5 19% 16% Total score 4 5% 7% Total score 3 4% 2% Total score 2 0% 1% Total score 1 1% 1% Total score 0 0% 0% Commentary The 2001 students performed very similarly to the 1997 students. Buying groceries Buying books II Checking the bank account The same amount Buying vegetables School swimming sports Which bottle size? Numbers at an art show Bank account Work schedule Temperature changes City populations Sharing fruit and vegetables Work, work, work Using string lines How many minutes between? Cross country finishing times Time calculations Addition boxes Addition squares II Addition rules Addition wheel Addition squares I Changing temperatures TV game show Buying electricity Indoor cricket scores Number machines II Changing weights Adding and subtracting fractions Estimate these Estimate the menu Sums, differences and products Writing word problems Fruit shop profit Daily timetable Estimate these II Dart combinations Selling cars Keep fit programme Sharing Jelly beans Knock the can Number patterns Speedo Adding and subtracting decimals Money computations Adding and subtracting fractions III Write an equation Using brackets II Distances between resorts At the canteen Jack's cows Addition and Multiplication boxes Estimating sums of money Estimating scores and crowds Estimating farm animals Estimating team scores Who is estimating? Addition Estimating in sport Estimating addition II Number line addition II Estimating with addition III Estimating addition IV Journalling about estimation Student answers Number line addition and subtraction III Equality Number sentences II Equal number sentences II 4 by 4 Number square II 4 by 4 Number square Number line addition and subtraction II Complete the equation Estimating with addition Estimation or not? Number sentences and story problems Commutative number lines II Eating fractions of pie, pizza and cake Commutative number sentences II Saving for a pet Fractions of cake Eating fractions of cake Estimating fractions Machines with rules Machine rules II Solving maths problems Some maths problems Weighing for the post Collecting beads Looking at zero Bus prices Exercise times Milk, chocolate and sugar Buying more CDs and DVDs Camp timetable Flight schedule Buying some gear Comparing prices Making a cake How long on the bus? Fencing paddocks Fruit and vegetables Adding and subtracting fractions II Addition and multiplication on a number line
This task is about using an algorithm to add numbers. Write your answers in the boxes. You can use the remaining area to do your working. 1. 5 + 8 2. 6 3 8 7 + 4 3. 42 + 35 4. 87 + 56 5. 237 + 436 6. 5607 3294 6358 + 7286 7. 36 + 117 + 6 + 23 + 240 =
