Capabilities Project.
MT6.5 – Mixed Crayons
Part A:
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Date
Altogether, there are 125 biscuits made for the school fete.
Each student in the class of 25, wraps an equal number of biscuits in foil.
How many biscuits are in each foil? (Show your work.)
Part B.
Bakers use trolleys with 6 trays that hold 12 loaves of bread each.
They bake bread twice a day.
How many loaves do they bake altogether? (Show your work)
A teacher has 9 packets of crayons.
There are 6 crayons in each small packet.
There are 10 crayons in each large packet.
The teacher has 3 small packets.
Part C:
How many crayons does he have altogether?
(Show your work.)
Class
Capabilities Project.
MT6.5 – Mixed crayons Assessment Criteria:
Source:
Discussion:
Naplan 2012 Y5 NC Q34.
(Queensland Studies Authority. www.qsa.qld.edu.au)
Students need to be taught a range of strategies to use to solve word problems. These include:
 reading the problem slowly and carefully several times as this assists with comprehension. In a
teaching situation, reading a problem aloud with the class is a way to model careful reading.
 Discussing the problem using a series of questions models how students should tackle a problem, e.g.
What information is given? Is it all needed? What are the key words/phrases? What are we being asked
to do?
Curriculum References:
Statements of Learning.
Y5
Students have the opportunity to read and interpret practical problems, identify appropriate operations to use,
express them mathematically and solve them
Y7
They calculate with the four operations, powers of 10 and small whole number powers of other numbers, by
mental, written and technology-assisted methods.
Australian Curriculum.
L6
Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems
involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)
 applying a range of strategies to solve realistic problems and commenting on the efficiency of different
strategies
AusVels.
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L6.5
solve problems that involve all four operations with whole numbers
• applying strategies already developed for solving problems involving small numbers to those
involving large numbers.
Proficiencies.
L7
 solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers
Relationship to Multiplicative Thinking. (Source: Dianne Siemon. http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/diannesiemon)
Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems
involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)
 First mention of these properties yet used in mental computation much earlier and 2 digit by 2 digit
multiplication in Year 6. Supportive of multiplicative thinking where factors used.