Youth group 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Working with Students Further Resources This task is about calculating capacity. Sala is buying some lemonade for their youth group. Question 1Change answer a) If one cup holds 200 ml, how many cups of drink will she get out of one litre of lemonade? cups Question 1Change answer b) Sala invited 20 people and they each drank one 200 ml cupful. How many litres of lemonade were used? litres Question 1Change answer c) A bottle holds 2 litres. How many millilitres would be left in the bottle after a 200 ml cup was poured from it? millilitres Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online with auto-marking. Level: 3 Curriculum info: Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement Keywords: capacity, conversion of units, multiplication Description of task: Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa to answer questions about the number of 200ml cups of lemonade in litre bottles. Curriculum Links: This resource can help to identify students' understanding of working with capacity (Measurement) and multiplicative strategies (Number strategies). Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Measurement sense, set 5Multiplicative thinking, sets 4-5 within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (09/2000) a) 5 easy b) 4 [accept 20 ¸ answer to a)] moderate c) 1800 difficult Diagnostic and formative information: Common error Likely reason c) 1.8 180 Answers in litres, not ml. Assumes 1 litre = 100 ml. Cough medicine How many litres? Millilitres or litres? Working out capacity How many millilitres? How much to fill it? Matching capacities
