These fictional numbers and settings are unseen in practice. The teacher may read the words neutrally, enlarge them or give tactile/AAC number cards. Record whether the operation and strategy were the learner's own, which prompts were given, and whether a calculator was used. Accept written, spoken, signed, pointed or typed explanations. Keep the staff key separate. A learner needing more time can finish in a recorded continuation; speed is not the mathematical target.
Day 15 · Check A: Invented paper ticket pages
A printing plan draws 213 small tickets on each page and proposes 14 pages. No ticket is real and no event is booked.
- Before calculating, give a nearby benchmark for the total and explain how you chose it. You may use
200×15or another sensible rounded pair. - Find the exact number of drawn tickets. Show your method, including what the ten pages and four pages contribute if you split 14.
- A proposed total is
29,820. Decide whether this could be right and explain with your benchmark or place-value parts. Do not merely say “wrong”.
Hand in the first answer and any self-revision before comparing strategies.
Day 20 · Check B: Invented label packets and shelf
A paper plan has 178 labels per packet and 24 packets. A fictional display shelf can hold at most 4,500 labels. The drawing says nothing about price, real shelf safety or whether any labels were made.
- Estimate the total first. Show the rounded numbers you used and say whether your estimate is above or below the exact total you expect.
- Find the exact total with an efficient written, tactile or spoken strategy. Show the contribution of 20 packets and 4 packets or a different inspectable method.
- Check your product with an inverse multiplication/division fact or a second independent product route. Do not just copy the original answer backward.
- Does the proposed total fit the stated 4,500-label limit? Give the difference or a clear inequality. Could you conclude it is the cheapest plan? Explain why or why not.
Hand in before discussing the key. This short sample does not establish full Year 5 achievement or a preferred calculation style.
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