Maths Problem Solving - T3W1

Hi Guys welcome back to my blog! This week was the start of term 3 and I was really excited to start the new term. For Maths this week we were working on Problem solving. For the first task we were working through perimeter and area. Then we picked a buddie and chose a problem solving question to work out. Me and Eilish were working together and we picked these problems...

1. Do the Kaupeka students take up more or less than 1/5 of the students at st Francis of Assisi School?

This is our working out: We already know that there are 95 students in kaupeka hub so it more be more than 1/5 because 1/5 is 72. Next we used our maths knowledge we already knew and put 36 ÷ 5 = 7.2 so we would know that 360 ÷ 5 = 72. So the final answer is the kaupeka students take up more than 1/5

2. If 1/6 of the students in kaupeka hub turn up to help one of the working bees for the bike track, How many students would be there to support the builders on the day?f 

Our working out: We already knew that 9.5 ÷ 6 = 1.583 so then the answer would be 15 but we can round it up to 16.

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Question: Do you think there is an easier way to work this out?