Sharing Jelly beans

Sharing Jelly beans

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This task is about adding, subtracting and dividing.
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Kit bought a packet of jelly beans to share with her 6 friends. She sorted them into colours and wrote down how many of each she had.
12 white 9 black 18 red 16 green
8 yellow 9 blue 18 orange 15 pink

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a)  How many jelly beans did Kit have altogether?

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b)  If the jelly beans were shared equally how many would each of the 7 children get?  

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c)  Which 3 colours, added together, make up nearest to one-half of all the jelly beans?
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d)  If Kit took all the pink ones and divided the rest among her 6 friends, how many would they each now get?  
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
addition, subtraction, division, equal sharing
Description of task: 
Students perform addition, subtraction and division calculations based on numbers of coloured jelly beans.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to apply simple multiplicative strategies to partition whole numbers.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Multiplicative thinking, sets 4-5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y7 (06/1996)

Y8 (06/1996)
a) 105 easy very easy
b) 15 [Accept answer to a) ¸ 7.] easy easy
c) red, orange, green (in any order) easy easy
d) 15 [Accept answer to a) - 15) ¸ 6.] moderate moderate

 

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