Making a cake

Making a cake

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This task is about adding and subtracting numbers.

Question 1Change answer

Jayden wanted to make a cake. The table below shows

  • the ingredients for the cake,
  • how much Jayden already has, and
  • how much is needed for the recipe.

Work out the extra amount of each ingredient Jayden needs to make the cake.

Ingredients Has Extra needed Recipe
butter 200 g g 500 g
sugar 200 g g 420 g
eggs 4 10
flour 1.5 kg kg 1.5 kg
baking powder 1 tsp tsp 2 tsp
currants 300 g g 450 g
raisins 150 g g 400 g
mixed peel 75 g 125 g
almonds 50 g g 120 g
cherries 45 g g 100 g
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students).
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
equations, addition, subtraction
Description of task: 
Students work out the extra amounts of ingredients needed for a recipe and complete a table of results.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to use basic facts and knowledge of place value and partitioning 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: 
  Y6 (09/1998)

butter 300
sugar 220
eggs 6
flour 0/none/*
baking powder 1
currants 150
raisins 250
mixed peel 50
chopped almonds 70
cherries 55

*Give mark if left blank

 10 correct – difficult

8-9 correct – easy

6-7 correct – very easy

2-5 correct – very easy
Diagnostic and formative information: 
Common error Likely misconception
Butter (700)
Sugar (620)
Eggs etc. (14)		 Adds rather than subtracts amount.