Task Sheet 1 Date: 2 May 2012
Name of Group members: ___________________________________________________
Instructions:
There are three questions in the task sheet. You are to complete the task sheet in 30 minutes.
Step 1: Work as a group, solve the STAR question first. Present the steps and answer(s) clearly. (10 min)
Step 2: Input your group solution here. (5 min)
Step 3: Work on the other two questions. Present the steps and answer(s) clearly. (15 min)
Step 4: Refer to this spreadsheet. Comment on your friends' answers. If you are doing Q1, you will comment on Q2. If you are doing Q2, you will comment on Q3. If you are doing Q3, you will comment on Q1. (15 min)
Step 4: Refer to this spreadsheet. Comment on your friends' answers. If you are doing Q1, you will comment on Q2. If you are doing Q2, you will comment on Q3. If you are doing Q3, you will comment on Q1. (15 min)
1. Kelly and Rita shared a sum of money in the ratio 8 : 5. After Rita had given $468 to Kelly, the ratio of Kelly’s money to Rita’s money became 2 : 1.
a) How much money did Kelly have in the end?
b) What is the difference in their money at first?
2. There were some goldfish and angelfish in a pet shop. After 3/8
(a) what was the total number of fish in the shop at first?
(b) what was the total amount collected when each goldfish was sold at $8.85?
3. Two stacks of magazines have a total mass of 41.22 kg. When 3 magazines of mass 150 g each were transferred from the lighter stack to the heavier stack, the heavier stack becomes 5 times as heavy as the lighter stack. Find the mass of the heavier stack at first.
Yay, another computer lesson
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to do question 3. Can anyone help me??? By the way, MDM TOH, i did not receive the ratio worksheet.
ReplyDeleteOh is for tommorow sorry.
ReplyDeletewho told you thee?
ReplyDeleteOur answers for Q1 is all different from the other groups.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how the '&' appeared.
Deletethee =you
ReplyDeletehow u noe?
DeleteWe realised that our answer was wrong after checking with the other group's answers.
ReplyDeletewat the?
ReplyDeleteZhi Qing might be wrong .maybe thee ans is correct.
ReplyDeleteWei Ting's group did Q1 and they found how much money Kelly had at first instead of how much money Kelly had in the end.
ReplyDeleteQ2 was easy,piece of cake. finished it in less than 5 minutes.
ReplyDeletesorry we forgot to put ernestses name
DeleteAre your answers correct?
DeleteOur answers from Glenn,Nicholas,Jayden are same for question "a" but not "B".
ReplyDeleteour ans was wrong....
ReplyDelete(after checking other's groups ans)
I think groups that did question 1 got the wrong answers.
ReplyDeleteThe groups who did question 2 are mostly wrong.
I think groups who did question 3 did quite well esciapply Nabilah group.
max your group anwser is good and correct
ReplyDeleteFor group that did question 2, most of them got differen answer from ours.But from what we see, we know that they have put in a lot of effort. We do not really undestand their working.
ReplyDeleteFor Jonathan's group,their answer is right and their steps are clearly shown.
DeleteFor Alisha's group,they show their working clearly, but we still cannot understand their working for part b.
For Glenn's group, they were specific on their working and they got the correct answer.
sorry ivan spell his name wrong
ReplyDeleteOur answers from Jevon, Alvis and Darry are same for question "a" but not "b".
ReplyDeleteFor question 3 the total remains the same
ReplyDeletemax group
DeleteAfter going through the answers, we understand why we got some questions wrong and we understand the concepts of the questions better. We did not know the correct concept of the first question and got it wrong. This has been a good learning experience for us.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 3 concept: Total ramains the same.
ReplyDeleteyou must use different shapes to solve Q2
ReplyDeleteUm not solve Q2 but to represent the fraction.
DeleteSome groups who did q.1 did not do the method of total remain the same.
ReplyDeleteFor question 1,the concept is total remains the same.
ReplyDeleteWe got it wrong because we did not know it but now we know it.
Question 2's method is Squares and Circles (Symbols). We did not used that method.
ReplyDeleteQ1&Q3 has the same concept which is 'Total remains the same'.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 3 is about the total mass did not change even though the lighter sack of magazines transfered magazines to the heavier sack.
ReplyDeleteSorry it is will not changing
DeleteSorry again it is will not change
Deletefor question(1).To find the ans thee must find the common multiple of 3 and 13.when thee get the ans in step (a) divide by 468 and thee will find 1u then thee find 26 units.(b)The differnce that is 9 u that is 2106
ReplyDeleteFor Q3 , the concept: total remains the same.
ReplyDeleteI spell my name wrong again.
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