Planting flowers

Planting flowers

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This task is about reading a calendar.

Malia planted 3 flowers. The date that she planted each one is shown below.

illustration: Malia        three-flowers.png

December
Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
 
 
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
 

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a)  On what day of the week was Flower B planted?

Question 1Change answer

b)  How many weeks were there between Malia planting Flower A and Flower B?  weeks.

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c)  Malia is going to plant her next flower on the fourth Monday in December.
     Click on the day that this will happen.

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d)  On the 31st of December Malia said, "Tomorrow I will plant another flower."
     i)  What new month will this be?
     ii) What day of the week will this be?

 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students).
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
time, calendar interpretation, months, weeks, days, calendars
Description of task: 
Students use a calendar to answer questions about the days flowers are planted.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (09/2001)
a)   Wednesday easy
b)   2 moderate
c)   Selects 27th (of December) moderate
d) i)
ii)		 January
Saturday		 easy
difficult
Diagnostic and formative information: 
 

Common error

Likely miscalculation
a) 15 December Date not day recorded.
b) 3
1 
14		 Includes week of planting in count.
Does not include the week of planting Flower A or planting Flower B.
Records number of days, not weeks.
c) 4/12/01 Records the date the 4th of December, not the date of the 4th Monday in December.
d) ii) 1
Monday		 Date not day recorded.
First day of the week, not of the next month.