Maths (a rich task )

Name of problem: holiday pocket money (rich task)

Describe the problem: we got $60 and a ¾  of it was spent on toys and then ⅓ was spent on lollies and then 2 pies for $2 each

These are the strategies and knowledge I used to solve the problem. (add more bullet points for each step) ¾ of 60 is 15.Dion helped us with that because he did it first ⅓  of 15 is ten also Dion helped us with this question too Then we got the answer as $6   Then at the end Mr Blakey came and helped us and checked that we got the answer of  $6

Describe how you used 2 learning muscles: Making Links muscle and collaboration muscle because we needed to collaborate to get the task done and I made a link with rich task because I spent some of my money in the holidays on a toy.

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