Children Making Computational

Choices

Student Questionnaire 2

Name

Class

Date

• For each question, work out the answer the best way
you can.
• Please explain as carefully as possible, how you did
each question and why you chose that method.
(1) How would you split 300 apples evenly into 14 bags?

(2) 9020 —902 How would you do this?

(3) 36 × 25 How would you do this?

(4) Which of the numbers in the brackets is the correct answer for 13 × 2.4?
(31.2 32.4 30.8 31.6) How do you know?
(5) If you know that 32 × 9 = 288, what would be the answer to 33 × 9?
How do you know?

(6) 78 × 99
How did you do it?

(7) John’s mother gave him some money and he spent $4.45. John then had
$4.55 left. How much money did his mother give him?

(8) What is the answer to — 780 = 2220?

How do you know?
 (9) What is the answer to ÷ 9 = 27?
How do you know?

(10) 27 + 68
How did you do it?

(11) 124 — 78
How did you do it?

(12) If 29 × 1.6 = 46.4, what is the answer to 29 × 160?

How do you know?
(13) Can you share 195 apples evenly among 9 people?
How do you know?

(14) In both examples below, you start with 90.

Is the answer for each of these greater than 90, or less than 90?
How do you know?

90 ÷ 0.9

90 × 0.9

(15) If you know that the answer to 78 + 29 + 37 is 144, what would be the
answer to 37 + 29 + 78?
How do you know?

(16) Will you get the same answer for each of these?
4 × 28 8 × 14 16 × 7
How do you know?