Answer Jake's homework for him please.

[Doobs]

For clarity, the link I gave earlier includes the questions in the OP if you view the second slide.


https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/multi-step-word-problems-6072795

Right next to this gem of a question

"The area of a rectangular field is 96m^2.  The length of one side is 12m.  The farmer needs to know its perimeter to work out how much fencing will be needed?"

The answer is obviously "yes".

[Doobs]

"Blackberry bushes cost £10.95 each.  There is a special offer that if you buy three, they cost £25.  How much do you save through this offer"

My wife will tell me she has saved £7.85, but the correct answer is she has saved nothing and instead spent £25. 

I can assure you my wife has spent fortunes over the years and saved little partly thanks to her poor understanding of the right answer to problems such as these. 

[The Camel]

I'd love to hear from Keith or Jake on the topic of pre and follow up work on these questions, or question types. There really should be some and whilst many here are assuming there wasn't I'm more inclined to think there was, but Jake hasn't shared it yet.

Been ill the last couple of days, will catch up with the thread when I'm feeling better.

Some more interesting stuff by the looks of things.

[lucky_scrote]

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[david3103]

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Child clearly understands the concepts being taught/tested, teacher seems slightly confused.

Ask the teacher how they would suggest 50 X 3 is solved
50+50+50
or
3+3+3+3+3+3+3......,,,,,

[Jon MW]

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Where is that even from - looks American?

[The Camel]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

[MC]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

£41 total and 41p each

[The Camel]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

£41 total and 41p each

That's what Jake has answered.

I think it's 41p total and 0.41p per child.

[StuartHopkin]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

£41 total and 41p each

That's what Jake has answered.

I think it's 41p total and 0.41p per child.

No

It cant be

We have no idea of the price breaks, a single pen could be 50p

Ridiculous

[david3103]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

£41 total and 41p each

That's what Jake has answered.

I think it's 41p total and 0.41p per child.

I see what you've done there
Them pesky teachers with their ambiguous questions again, don't you just love 'em

[EvilPie]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

Without reading any of the other responses I'm going to go for:

41p total and 0.18p per child. Not sure how they're going to share that pen between them but that's their problem.

[The Camel]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

Without reading any of the other responses I'm going to go for:

41p total and 0.18p per child. Not sure how they're going to share that pen between them but that's their problem.

That's Britain outside the EU for you.

[The Camel]

Back to the stupid questions.

What is the answer to this

Pencils cost 100 for £14
Pens cost 18p each
Erasers cost £9 for 100.

If I bought a pencil, an eraser and a pen for 100 children how much would I spend? How much would I spend on each child?

Without reading any of the other responses I'm going to go for:

41p total and 0.18p per child. Not sure how they're going to share that pen between them but that's their problem.

How on earth do you come up with 0.18p per child though? Surely should be 41p/100?

[Graham C]

Surely it's not the role of a teacher to set a question designed to catch children out?

I'd go for £41 in total and 41p each.