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Measures, shape and space/Solving problems
9
Sanjay goes to town
Topics
~ Length
~ Making decisions
~ Problems involving measures
Objectives
~ Understand and use the vocabulary related to length.
~ Compare two lengths by direct comparison; extend to more than
two.
~ Choose and use appropriate number operations and mental
strategies to solve problems.
~ Use mental strategies to solve simple problems set in measures
contexts, using counting, addition, subtraction, halving or doubling,
explaining methods and reasoning orally.
Description
RCM 7: Sanjay goes to
town (enlarged to A3),
A3 paper,
marker
Children use the clues to mark distances between places on a simple plan of a town. They
then use this information to calculate and compare these distances.
Follow-up discussion questions
How many places did Sanjay visit on his walk?
How many places did Sanjay not visit?
What is the distance between the bridge and the park?
The next day Sanjay went for another walk in the town. Tell me a walk he may have made.
Key words
Question level
zero (0)
one (1)
two (2)…
one hundred (100)
Sanjay
town
metres (m)
from
between
longer
shorter
closer
last
altogether
around
River Cottage
May Cottage
Big House
newsagent
swimming pool
village hall
café
park
bank
supermarket
school
Easier questions 44
Answers
The supermarket
What is the last place that Sanjay
walks to?
9E
mill, school, village hall,
Big House, football field
Which places does Sanjay not
visit on his walk?
9F
Moderate questions
café
Which is closer to the swimming
pool: the newsagent or the café?
9G
13 metres
How far does Sanjay walk from
the bank to the supermarket?
9H
More difficult questions
Resources
Is Sanjay’s walk from River Cottage
to the newsagent longer or shorter
than his walk from the swimming
pool to the park?
longer by 1 metre
9I
19 metres
How far does Sanjay walk from
the park to the supermarket?
9J
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Sanjay has a cup of tea in the café.
Then he walks 13 metres to the
park.
9A
Sanjay feeds the birds in the park.
9B
Sanjay walks 12 metres from the
newsagent to the swimming pool.
9C
Sanjay walks 9 metres from the
bank to visit Annie at May Cottage.
9D
?
What is the last place that Sanjay
walks to?
9E
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Which places does Sanjay not
visit on his walk?
9F
?
Which is closer to the swimming
pool: the newsagent or the café?
9G
?
How far does Sanjay walk from
the bank to the supermarket?
9H
?
Is Sanjay’s walk from River Cottage
to the newsagent longer or shorter
than his walk from the swimming
pool to the park?
9I
?
How far does Sanjay walk from
the park to the supermarket?
9J
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Sanjay walks 6 metres from the
park to the bank.
9K
After going for a swim in the pool,
Sanjay walks 8 metres to the café.
9L
After lunch with Annie, Sanjay
walks 4 metres to the supermarket.
9M
Use the sheet and the clues to
draw the rest of Sanjay’s walk.
Sanjay leaves River Cottage.
He walks 5 metres over the bridge.
Then he walks 17 metres from the
bridge to the newsagent.
Mill
Football field
Bank
River
Cottage
5 metres
Park
Big House
17 metres
Write in how far he walks each
time.
May
Cottage
Swimming pool
Supermarket
Newsagent
Café
School
Village hall
9N
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Measures, shape and space/Solving problems
10
Jelly beans
Topics
~ Mass
~ Making decisions
~ Problems involving measures
Objectives
~ Understand and use the vocabulary related to mass.
~ Compare two masses by direct comparison; extend to more than two.
~ Choose and use appropriate number operations and mental
strategies to solve problems.
~ Use mental strategies to solve simple problems set in measures
contexts, using counting, addition, subtraction, halving or doubling,
explaining methods and reasoning orally.
Description
A3 paper,
marker,
red, white, green, pink,
yellow and black
coloured cubes
(optional)
Key words
zero (0)
one (1)
two (2)…
twenty (20)
Chloe
Alpesh
Jenny
Lee
choose
pick-n-mix
Jelly beans
red
white
green
pink
yellow
black
fewer
double
weighs
heavier
heaviest
in order
Children use the clues to find out how many different Jelly beans four children put into their
pick-n-mix bags. They then use this information to compare the weights of the four bags.
It may help children to be provided with a selection of red, white, green, pink, yellow and
black coloured cubes to represent the six different colours of Jelly beans.
Follow-up discussion questions
What did Lee’s pick-n-mix bag weigh?
How did you work it out?
Whose pick-n-mix bag weighed the least?
Tell me about the weight of Jenny’s and Lee’s bags.
Question level
Answers
Easier questions 20 Jelly beans
How many Jelly beans does
Chloe’s bag weigh?
10B
Alpesh
Whose bag weighs 15 Jelly beans?
10D
Moderate questions
12 Jelly beans
What is the weight of Jenny’s bag?
10G
Chloe
Who has the heaviest bag?
10I
More difficult questions
Lee’s
Whose bag is 6 Jelly beans
heavier than Jenny’s?
10L
Put the children’s names in order.
Start with the child whose bag is
the heaviest.
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Resources
Chloe (20), Lee (18),
Alpesh (15), Jenny (12)
10M
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Jenny has 8 fewer Jelly beans
than Chloe.
10A
?
How many Jelly beans does
Chloe’s bag weigh?
10B
Alpesh puts 4 pink Jelly beans
in his bag.
10C
?
Whose bag weighs 15 Jelly beans?
10D
Lee puts the same number of pink
Jelly beans in his bag as Chloe.
10E
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4 friends choose Jelly beans at a
pick-n-mix counter.
They each put their Jelly beans in
a bag.
All the Jelly beans weigh the same.
10F
?
What is the weight of Jenny’s bag?
10G
Chloe puts 7 black and
4 yellow Jelly beans in her bag.
10H
?
Who has the heaviest bag?
10I
Chloe puts 3 red Jelly beans in
her bag.
She puts double this number of
pink Jelly beans in her bag.
10J
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Lee chooses the same number of
pink, yellow and black Jelly beans.
He does not choose any other
Jelly beans.
10K
?
Whose bag is 6 Jelly beans
heavier than Jenny’s?
10L
?
Put the children’s names in order.
Start with the child whose bag is
the heaviest.
10M
Alpesh puts 5 white and 6 green
Jelly beans in his bag.
10N
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Measures, shape and space/Solving problems
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Watering the vegetables
Topics
~ Capacity
~ Making decisions
~ Problems involving measures
Objectives
~ Understand and use the vocabulary related to capacity.
~ Compare two capacities by direct comparison; extend to more than
two.
~ Choose and use appropriate number operations and mental
strategies to solve problems.
~ Use mental strategies to solve simple problems set in measures
contexts, using counting, addition, subtraction, halving or doubling,
explaining methods and reasoning orally.
Description
A3 paper,
marker,
about 40 paper cups or
similar (optional)
Key words
zero (0)
one (1)
two (2)…
forty (40)
Mr Green
Mr Soil
Mrs Pot
Mrs Spade
Mrs Hedge
people
person
bucket
amount
water
vegetables
most
least
double
fewer
more
size
Children work out how much water five gardeners use each day to water their vegetable
gardens. All the measures are in buckets of water. The groups then use this information to
compare how much water the gardeners have used.
It may help children to use paper cups to represent buckets of water.
Follow-up discussion questions
Who uses the least amount of water?
How many buckets of water does Mr Green use?
How much more water does Mrs Spade use than Mrs Hedge?
When Mr Green is half way through watering his vegetables, how many buckets has he
used? How many more does he have to use?
Question level
Answers
Easier questions 10 buckets
How many buckets of water does
Mr Soil use?
11G
Mr Green
Who uses 8 buckets of water?
11H
Moderate questions
Write the names of the 5 people
in order.
Start with the person who uses
the most water.
11I
17 buckets
How many buckets of water do
Mrs Spade and Mr Green use
altogether?
More difficult questions
Mr Soil (10), Mrs Spade (9),
Mr Green (8), Mrs Pot (7),
Mrs Hedge (5)
11L
Resources
Mrs Pot and Mrs Hedge
Which 2 people together use
12 buckets of water?
11M
39 buckets
How many buckets of water do
the 5 people use altogether?
11N
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Mrs Pot uses 2 fewer buckets of
water than Mrs Spade.
11A
Mr Green, Mr Soil, Mrs Pot,
Mrs Spade and Mrs Hedge all
grow vegetables.
11B
Mr Green, Mr Soil, Mrs Pot,
Mrs Spade and Mrs Hedge
each use buckets to water
their vegetables.
11C
Mrs Hedge uses 5 buckets of water.
11D
Mrs Spade uses 4 more buckets
of water than Mrs Hedge.
11E
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All the buckets have the same
amount of water in them.
11F
?
How many buckets of water does
Mr Soil use?
11G
?
Who uses 8 buckets of water?
11H
?
Write the names of the 5 people
in order.
Start with the person who uses
the most water.
11I
Mr Green uses 1 more bucket
of water than Mrs Pot.
11J
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Mr Soil uses double the number
of buckets of water as Mrs Hedge.
11K
?
How many buckets of water do
Mrs Spade and Mr Green use
altogether?
11L
?
Which 2 people together use
12 buckets of water?
11M
?
How many buckets of water do
the 5 people use altogether?
11N
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