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Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Day 3, Activity 3 ( Week 2 )

Hello Readers,

Today, I am going to show you some mathematics!

               The math problem is, “How many adults and children to take the giant squid into new room at Te Papa?” It was stated in the story that the weight of the Colossal Squid is 500kg. The average weight that the adult can lift is 25kg and children can lift only 15 kg.

               This is how to solve it. I divide the total weight of the squid to the weight that an adult can lift.

500kg- weight of squid/ 25 kg -adult can lift
The answer is 20 adults.

Please see photo of calculation.






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1 comment:

  1. Susie Lee24 January 2019 at 10:03

    Mōrena Celine,

    This is Susie from the SLJ team again. Congratulations at having a go at solving this probability problem. Other students have mainly used addition (+) or multiplication (x) to solve this problem but you have taken a different approach by diving the total weight of the squid by how much an average adult can lift. Great thinking!

    If only adults were to lift the giant squid, your answer would be correct. Do you think there might be any other ways to solve this question? Any other answers you could come up with? What if we had to have BOTH adults and children in our answer? Have a think!

    Keep up the awesome work,
    Susie :)

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