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__AND THE ANSWER IS 9; WHAT IS THE QUESTION?__ __ HIGHLIGHTING THE LITERACY OF MATHEMATICS __

Our school has been involved in a major project to focus on the seven high reliability literacy strategies. These work sheets get students to focus on the literacy strategies of **__getting the__ __knowledge ready__, __vocabulary__, __rephrasing__ and __review__**. As these strategies become inherent to a student pattern of thinking/neurological pathways; they increase their opportunity to work autonomously at higher level numeracy. These work sheets help students work backwards to consolidate their current understanding. Last but not least by setting up a multi-levelled worksheet, students can succeed at their own working (literacy) level AND see where their language needs to be developed to go further up the mathematical language chain.

__ HOW TO USE “THE ANSWER IS 9” __ “The answer is 9” can be used as worked examples or an information sheet but I preferred to practice an examplar (the answer is 9 and the answer is .9) with my students and then get them to work on a new number(s). I prefer perfect squares as they provide some interesting properties and come up over and over in their mathematical journey. I had also seen how students have struggled with quadratic functions in Year 11 Mathematical Methods by __not__ knowing their perfect squares.

__ YEAR 7 BLANK ANSWERSHEET FOR THE ANSWER IS…. __ __ YEAR 8 BLANK ANSWER SHEET FOR THE ANSWER IS… __ Attached are the two templates for students to fill it at Year 6/7 or 7/8. or 8/9 I suggest starting with the number 16 as it is such a groovy number. The decimal .16 is a great mathematical challenge but can stymie some kids linguistic processing. I personally wanted students to be more au fait with vocabulary, not to get hung up (mentally jam) on words such as product, mean or power.

Mea culpa Heulwen Sweet 2010

? || OR What is its place value? || (harder question) 27/3 is the same as? || (harder question) .09 x 100 is the same as? || (harder question) What is 10% of 90? OR 900%= || What is the reciprocal of 1/9? || What is 3 to the power 2? || 6,9, 19,1, 4, 19,10 || OR If b = 7 what does 63 divided by b = || However, if the answer was 81 You could say 3 cubed = || Note: It needs to be a more challenging question. ||
 * ** INFORMATION SHEET ….. AND THE ANSWER IS 9 ** ||
 * ** Year 6/7 difficulty ** ||
 * X || 3 x 3 = ||
 * / || 18 /2 = ||
 * - || 100 – 91 = ||
 * : || 4.5 + 4.5 = ||
 * array || *
 * picture ||  ||
 * altogether || ?
 * picture ||  ||
 * altogether || ?
 * how many || How many ** do not like liquorice? ** ||
 * place value || column?
 * fraction || ½ of 18 =
 * decimal || .5 of 18 =
 * percentage % || 50% of 18 =
 * inverse or reciprocal || What is the inverse of 1/9?
 * product || What is the product of 3 and 3? ||
 * Year 7/8 difficulty ||
 * square || What is 3 squared?
 * square root || What is the square root of 81? ||
 * area || What is the area of a square that is 3m wide and 3m long? ||
 * perimeter || What is the perimeter of this triangle? ||
 * mode || What is the mode out of this group? 9, 8, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 9, 10, 9. ||
 * median || What is the median age out of this group of kids?
 * mean or average || What does the mean of 8,9,10,7 and 11 = ||
 * powers or indices || What is 9 to the power 1? ||
 * roots || The square root of 81 is? ||
 * algebra || If a =3, what does 3a =
 * cubes || Not applicable for 9.
 * cube root || What is the cube root of 729? ||
 * Year 8/9 difficulty ||
 * surd ||  ||
 * venn diagram || There are 23 students in class. 14 play cricket. 4 play both games. How many play tennis? ||
 * outlier || In our class we have 16 people. Their ages are 14, 13, 15, 14, 13,3,12,13,13,14 and 14. What is the outlier? ||
 * area of circle || A circle has a diameter of 3.4cm. Using pi as 3.14. Work out the area to the nearest cm squared. ||
 * area of composite shape || What is the area of this composite shape? ||
 * algebra question || x squared + (-3 x3) = 72
 * box plot || Using a box plot, what is the median of the following data…? ||

HOMEWORK DUE >>> YEAR 7 HOMEWORK. AND THE ANSWER IS +
 * NAME>>>

Please complete 15 from the two sections. Aiming higher? Complete more from the 7/8 section. || Designed/created by Heulwen with her natural coloured hair in 2010. This homework is designed to give your cranial matter, aka your neck top computer, aka your grey stuff a gentle, yet firm workout to increase its power, increase its attractiveness and generally to keep it out of mischief. Now how can that be a bad thing?
 * Year 6/7 difficulty ||
 * X ||  ||
 * : ||  ||
 * array ||  ||
 * picture ||  ||
 * altogether ||  ||
 * how many ||  ||
 * place value ||  ||
 * fraction ||  ||
 * decimal ||  ||
 * percentage % ||  ||
 * inverse or reciprocal ||  ||
 * product ||  ||
 * Year 7/8 difficulty ||
 * square ||  ||
 * square root ||  ||
 * area ||  ||
 * perimeter ||  ||
 * mode ||  ||
 * median ||  ||
 * mean or average ||  ||
 * powers or indices ||  ||
 * roots ||  ||
 * algebra ||  ||
 * cubes ||  ||
 * cube root ||  ||
 * Other??? ||  ||
 * cube root ||  ||
 * Other??? ||  ||

HOMEWORK DUE >>> YEAR 8 HOMEWORK. AND THE ANSWER IS +
 * NAME>>>

Please complete 15 from the two sections. Aiming higher? Complete more from the 8/9 section. || Designed/created by Heulwen with her natural coloured hair in 2010. This homework is designed to give your cranial matter, aka your neck top computer, aka your grey stuff, a gentle yet firm workout to increase its power, increase its attractiveness and generally to keep it out of mischief. Now how can that be a bad thing?
 * Year 7/8 difficulty ||
 * product ||  ||
 * square ||  ||
 * square root ||  ||
 * area ||  ||
 * perimeter ||  ||
 * mode ||  ||
 * median ||  ||
 * mean or average ||  ||
 * powers or indices ||  ||
 * roots ||  ||
 * algebra ||  ||
 * cubes ||  ||
 * cube root ||  ||
 * Year 8/9 difficulty ** ||
 * surd ||  ||
 * venn diagram ||  ||
 * outlier ||  ||
 * area of circle ||  ||
 * area of composite shape ||  ||
 * worded algebra question ||  ||
 * box plot ||  ||
 * Other? ||  ||