Monday, 27 April 2015

Math Challenge

Our akonga (students) love the weekly math challenges that are posted on the board. Here was one of our challenges:

I have less than $2 in my pocket. If I share the money out evenly with two people I will have 5 cents left. If I share the money out evenly with three people I will have 5 cents left and if I share the money out evenly with four people I will have 5 cents left. How much money do I have in my pocket?

Some of the students have been working on this for a few days now. Do you know the answer/s?

To help a couple of students work out one of the correct answers we had a lesson on Common Multiples. Here they are hard at work:


They have found out one of the correct answers.

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