Keep fit programme

Keep fit programme

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This task is about carrying out calculations using time.
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A keep-fit programme requires people to do the activities listed on the board above.

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a)  Altogether how many minutes a week do all the exercises take?    minutes

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b)  After skipping and rowing, how much time would be left from 60 minutes?    minutes

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c)  If Tony wanted to spend exactly 60 minutes on this programme, list the 3 activities he would choose.
     1.  SkippingRowingCyclingJoggingWeight-lifting       2.  SkippingRowingCyclingJoggingWeight-lifting     3.  SkippingRowingCyclingJoggingWeight-lifting
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (with NO auto marking).
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
addition, subtraction, time
Description of task: 
Students perform calculations using the times taken to carry out a range of fitness activities.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to apply additive or simple multiplicative ideas flexibly to combine or partition whole numbers to solve addition and subtraction problems.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Additive thinking, sets 6-7
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y7 (06/1996)

Y8 (06/1996)
a) 143 minutes [Accept 2 hrs 23 minutes.] easy easy
b) 10 minutes easy easy
c) Skipping, and jogging, and weight-lifting (in any order). [Accept if times only are listed, i.e., 15, 20, 25.] easy (for all 3 correct) easy (for all 3 correct)