Numeracy

Hi Epsom Community, 

Your children have been hard at work developing their understanding of chance and probability through a number of activities and games. Moving forward this term students will be learning about multiplicative thinking, looking at a range of ways to visually show multiplication and division as well as develop strategies to help them do this efficiently. 

The answer to the holiday challenge is below. 

The Missing Number

3 friends walk into a hotel. The man behind the desk tells the friends the room is $30. Each friend pays $10 and goes to the room.

A while later the man behind the desk realised the room should have been $25 and sends the bellboy to the room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between the 3 friends, so he gave each one a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.

This meant that the friends paid $9 each for the room, which is a total of $27 add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar?

The answer to the problem above is that the $2 is within the $27, not added to it. 

• $27= $25 to the room and $2 to the bellboy and $3 returned to the three friends. 

July Newsletter challenge

Happy problem solving!

- From the Numeracy Team