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Our Year 6 and Year 4 level Math groups got together this week to work on some Christmas problem solving.\u00a0 The Year 6 took on the role of teachers, supporting the Year 4s.\u00a0 They prepared their lessons carefully, thinking through how they would help and encourage their partners to work through each problem, logically and methodically, using a range of strategies.\u00a0 Everyone enjoyed the experience and the room was a buzz of activity.<\/p>\n
The Year 6’s felt that the experience had been really interesting and that teaching was hard but rewarding work.\u00a0 They enjoyed the challenge of trying to help, without giving answers away and they did really well with encouraging their partners to keep trying.\u00a0 The Year 4s really appreciated having their own personal teachers.\u00a0 The questions were tough, but they felt more confident as the session went on,\u00a0 discovering that they could work out the problems and were thankful for their excellent teachers!<\/p>\n
Here are some of the math problems. How would you work them out?<\/p>\n
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Rockerfella’s Christmas parcels<\/strong><\/p>\n Rockerfella has three parcels. Each one is a different weight.<\/p>\n The first and second weigh 7 kg altogether.<\/p>\n The second and third weigh 8 kg altogether.<\/p>\n The first and third weigh 11 kg altogether.<\/p>\n What is the weight of each parcel?<\/p>\n Button’s presents<\/strong><\/p>\n Buttons had up to 20 presents.<\/p>\n He counted his presents in fours. He had 3 left over.<\/p>\n He counted them in fives.\u00a0 He had 4 left over.<\/p>\n How many presents has Button got?<\/p>\n Presents in Santa’s sacks for Cinderella<\/strong><\/p>\n Santa has three sacks of presents.<\/p>\n He has an odd number of presents in each sack.<\/p>\n Altogether he has 19 presents.<\/p>\n How many presents are in each sack? Find different ways to do it.<\/p>\n Fairy Godmother\u2019s Christmas cards<\/strong><\/p>\n Fairy Godmother had between 30 and 50 Christmas cards.<\/p>\n She counted the cards in fours. There were 2 left over.<\/p>\n She counted them in fives. There was 1 left over.<\/p>\n How many Christmas cards did she have?<\/p>\n Fairy Nasty Boot’s Christmas Gift<\/strong><\/p>\n Fairy Nasty Boots bought a Christmas gift using only silver coins.<\/p>\n It cost him 45c.<\/p>\n Find as many different ways he could have paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Year 6 and Year 4 level Math groups got together this week to work on some Christmas problem solving.\u00a0 The Year 6 took on the role of teachers, supporting the Year 4s.\u00a0 They prepared their lessons carefully, thinking through how they would help and encourage their partners to work through each problem, logically and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/problem-solving-15-12-10-5.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" "\\"problem-solving-15-12-10-5\\"")
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