Feedback on Review 4 (Term 2)

Some children used the wrong operator in question 7. The children had experience working with 2-step word problems that were separated into two parts {(a) and (b)} for them and also without the scaffolding. In this question, they need to recognise that it's  2-step word problem. Most often when the word 'than' is used, there is a need to compare. So, children need to know that WHO is lighter and WHO is heavier. In this case, the 'he' refers to 'Muthu' so we know that he is 37 kg. The key question is 'Is Amanda heavier/ lighter than Muthu?'

They are encouraged to draw models to help them to visualise. Before they'd learnt model drawing, they were taught to draw up and down arrows to help them visualise who is 'heavier/ lighter' or otherwise 'more/ less'.