Word problems on multiplication and division set on a school trip to the zoo, written for Year 4 maths. Pupils scale up a 12-metre coach to find a train four times as long, divide £96 of ticket money, count sandwich and fruit combinations, and decide whether 90 bananas really feed one monkey for a week. Every solution is included. Practises the England National Curriculum objective on multiplying, scaling and correspondence problems.
Number - multiplication and division
“Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.”
Scaling, correspondence and multi-step problems all appear across the three sections.
Scaling and division problems, like the train four times as long as the 12-metre coach and £96 of £8 tickets.
A 4-sandwiches-by-3-fruits combinations question, 6 boxes of 24 fish, and a 150 square metre enclosure to divide by 3.
A reasoning question on whether 90 bananas last a week at 14 a day, plus a multi-step money problem.
Main activity
The zoo trip storyline carries a full problem-solving lesson.
Reasoning talk
The banana question makes a good whole-class argument before written answers.
Homework
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