How many biscuits?

How many biscuits?

Pencil and paper
Overview
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about calculating with weight.

 

Gladstone School bought 200 cartons of biscuits to sell for fundraising. Each carton contained 15 kg of biscuits.

Each packet of biscuits in a carton weighed 250 g.

(1000 g = 1 kg)

 

a)    How many kg of biscuits were there to sell? __________ kg
 

 

 

 

b)    How many packets of biscuits were there? __________ packets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
weight, multiplication, division, conversion of units, problem solving
Description of task: 
Students answer questions about weight and number of packets of biscuits for a school fundraising project.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of multiplicative strategies to solve measurement problems (Number Strategies) and appropriate conversion of standard units for the Measurement objectives.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Measurement sense, set 5
Multiplicative thinking, sets 4-5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 

 

Y7 (06/1996)

a)

3,000

moderate

b)

12,000

very difficult