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Help any teachers or anyone good with Maths Help needed

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 19:30

Our 6yo has some home work and we think the examples are wrong or we are not under standing the questions right ?
can anyone help us
the link is below to see the home work
The home work says ( write the double for each dart board number )
the example is 1 = 1 should it be 2 ?
the next one says number 8 double is 4 is this right ? or should it be 16
please help.
Confused Lynne521

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itdoesnthurttohavemanners · 04/05/2012 19:33

I think you should just point out that the examples are wrong!
Left hand side is doubles..right hand is halves. :)

Feenie · 04/05/2012 19:35

Yeah, that doubling example is clearly wrong, it should be 16.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 19:40

Thanks and so the dart board example is also wrong as being 1 ?

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 19:43

if our teachers are giving out home work like this no wonder the kids are having problems learning had me confused :-)

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ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 04/05/2012 19:44

Lynne - the homework isn't wrong. They are asking which double you would need to hit, so to 'score' 8 you would need to hit the 'double 4'.

It is, however, stupid homework for a 6 year old.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 19:47

that`s what I thought at first but how can you answer score 15 no 7.5 on dart board ?

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ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 04/05/2012 19:47

I think part of your confusion is that they have segmented the board - so they have said 'this segment is 1' I don't think you are supposed to fill that bit in, just the two bits at the bottom.

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 04/05/2012 19:50

Hmm - my darts brain just went '1 double 7'

Grin

Not really helping with the homework though is it.

Primrose123 · 04/05/2012 19:53

It's a good idea to use darts scoring in numeracy, but that worksheet is really unclear!

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 20:00

yes i`m still not sure have had different answers on here ?

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LeeCoakley · 04/05/2012 20:01

I think the page was hurriedly done on the computer at 2.45 and wasn't checked over properly! 14 + 14 is blank then that well known double 20 + 8 = 28! Love it.

I think this homework is good. It just reinforces their learning about doubles and halving in a 'fun' way.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 20:15

yes great bit of homework this has turned out to be ?

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 20:41

mrz thanks so the teacher has got it from a website still not sure how it should be done ?

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mrz · 04/05/2012 20:48

Personally I think the 8 - double is wrong and would change it to 16 then the rest are straightforward

juniper904 · 04/05/2012 20:59

LeeCoakley

That box is explaining how to double two digit numbers.

It means to double 14, you double the 10 then double the 4, then add them together. Hence 20 + 8.

TBH- homework is a pain in the arse to set. In my school, we just cannot please all of the parents, and it gets to the point where I wonder why I bother. It's either too easy or too hard. Too much or too little. Not enough maths or too much. Too independent or not independent enough.

I can understand the irritation at the sheet, but teachers do not have the time to create new, interesting, differentiated and engaging pieces of home work every week in addition to their teaching jobs.

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 04/05/2012 20:59

I'd just leave it how she has done it and put a note on it to the teacher.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 21:08

Hi
juniper904 so is the example
number 8 double 4 right ?
so the next one
number 15 would be
double 5 + 5 ?

Thanks Lynne

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juniper904 · 04/05/2012 21:20

I think the bottom but must be an error.

It would be massively unreasonable to expect a year 2 child to halve odd numbers as a homework task, so rather than that whole column being halving, I'd guess the first one is just wrong.

Double 15 would be written as 10 + 10 and 5 + 5 added together. Partition into tens and units to help solve the harder ones.

But it looks like your daughter can solve it, so I would just be happy she gets halves and doubles!

I'm a year 3 teacher, and there are still a fair few kids in my class who can't double 2-digit numbers.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 21:24

my child is in year 1
sorry but it is number 15 we need to work out the double ?

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juniper904 · 04/05/2012 21:26

Yes- I'd guess that the left column is all doubling but the 8 -> 4 is wrong, and the right column is halving.

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lynne521 · 04/05/2012 21:42

Thanks Juniper904
i`m still not so sure that is how it should be done the more I think about it the answer for 15 would be double 7 +1 which ChippingInLovesEasterEggs has posted ?

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mrz · 05/05/2012 07:29

I wouldn't expect a Y1 child (or all of Y2 as it's a level 3 skill) to know "remainders" as in 7 remainder 1

WeetabixIsNotAPlural · 05/05/2012 07:39

Shock @ lazy teachers copying homework from an internet resource without checking it for basic errors.

I think juniper is right, and the '4' is wrong btw.

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lynne521 · 05/05/2012 09:20

yes its not very good to set homework like this if we grown ups cant come to the same answer how is a 6yo going to know how to do it ?

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