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Pizza and Things - Problem Solving

The document describes a math problem involving calculating the number of people at two different restaurants based on information about the number of tables and total people. It provides vocabulary related to halving, doubling, grouping, and counting. Useful equipment for solving the problem includes blocks, drawings, and counters. The problem connects to areas of math like doubling, halving, multiplication, and fractions. The teaching sequence should introduce similar guessing games, read the problem, have students work in pairs or groups to solve it with teacher guidance, and then share solutions.

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Pizza and Things - Problem Solving

The document describes a math problem involving calculating the number of people at two different restaurants based on information about the number of tables and total people. It provides vocabulary related to halving, doubling, grouping, and counting. Useful equipment for solving the problem includes blocks, drawings, and counters. The problem connects to areas of math like doubling, halving, multiplication, and fractions. The teaching sequence should introduce similar guessing games, read the problem, have students work in pairs or groups to solve it with teacher guidance, and then share solutions.

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What needs to be highlighted:


2 x tables 7 people each how many altogether?
2 same table 16 people altogether how many per table?

Vocabulary:

Halving
Doubling
Total
Grouping
Counting

What equipment would be useful:

Blocks
Drawing a picture
Counters

What areas of maths relate / can make connections:

Doubling
Halving
Multiplications
Fractions

Teaching Sequence:
Explicit:

Introduce the lesson with some guessing games, for example:

I am a number which is half of 10 what number am I?I am a number which 4 more


than 3 what number am I?I am a number which is 5 less than 10 what number am I?

Read the problem to the class.


Brainstorm for ways to solve the problem.
Students are allowed to work in pairs- Students go off to work on

problem
As the students work on the problem ask questions that focus on the number

strategies that they are using.


Students reflect half way using learning scale Students that need help

come for some assistance in a small group


End - Come back to mat and discuss

Tell me how you got your answer? Can you think of a way to check that you are
correct?

Share solutions.

Solutions:

Perhaps the students will do this by using blocks to represent the people.
Putting down 7 blocks for each table gives 14 blocks altogether. Therefore the
Pizza Place can hold 14 people.
Now put 16 blocks down. Share them out equally into two piles. Each pile
holds 8 blocks. So the tables at The Chicken N Chips can seat 8 people.

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