Students calculate the number of free gifts distributed at a Tennis Championship given the number of people entering and the frequency of the gifts given away.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
This resource can help to identify students' ability to apply additive or multiplicative strategies flexibly to whole numbers, ratios and equivalent fractions (including decimals and percentages).
Diagnostic and formative information:
Common error
Likely reason
a)
b)
22.5
7.5
Does not recognise that answer must be a whole number.
a)
b)
23
8
Rounds up rather than rounds down.
d)
115 or 114
150
Calculates 10 + 30 + 75 (- 1)
Understands the correct concepts but forgets to subtract 1.