Monday, 17 March 2014

Learning to solve maths word problems



My reflection:

I was leaning how to solve a problem in different ways.The problem was how much money would Shreya have after 5 weeks.  She got $4.50c every week.There was another challenge how much money how much money would she have after 10 weeks.  For the first challenge I used addition to add up the dollars then the cents.   For the second one I used doubles.

The extra challenge was hard but I did it. I counted on from ten weeks. $45 + $9 = $54. $9 would be 2 weeks pockey money so I added 10 + 2 and that made 12 weeks.

I am proud of my work because I did all the questions. I persevered.  I liked problem like this because it was a kids problem.



1 comment:

Mrs Hodge said...

You are right- you certainly did persevere every time we worked further on different parts of this real life problem. You are growing in confidence and it is great to see you enjoying maths so much. Mr Wood wrote you some more maths problems today in golden time, I heard. Wonderful.