Unit 18 – Patterns, puzzles and problems
2 A television costs $450 and a laptop costs $329. (a) How much more does the television cost than the laptop? (b) What is the total cost of the television and laptop? 3 Make up a problem to represent the subtraction 365 − 329. Ask your partner to check it. Creating and solving problems about multiplication and division
Look at the two problems here. How can you represent them? Talk about any connections you notice. Mr Nelson plants 6 rows of potato plants. There are 12 plants in each row. How many potato plants altogether? Leon buys some packs of stickers. There are 6 stickers in each pack. There are 72 stickers in total. How many packs of stickers did he buy?
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Can we create two new problems that use the multiplication 24 × 3 and the division 36 ÷ 3?
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