Well done, your 2nd investigation was completed with greater

accuracy and efficiency than your first investigation.

What have I learned about solving problems

using the number 1,000,000?

Post Assessment

NIST Year 6
 Instructions
• Work with a partner.
• Read through the problem.
• Devise a plan to solve your problem and put the plan into action.
• Prepare a short oral presentation to explain to your class how you
solved your chosen problem. Your explanation must include
[1] Your original plan of how to solve the problem.
[2] A step by step guide of what you did to get your answer.
[3] Details of any changes to your original plan and why those
changes were made.
[4] A detailed explanation of all your working out.
 Our Chosen Problem
Paste the problem you have chosen here:

Problem 2
Meredith is in training for the 2012 Olympics. She should swim at least
1,000,000 meters during 2009. How many laps of the pool will she need to swim
in order to swim 1,000,000 meters? How many laps should she swim each day?
 Our Plan…
1. To calculate laps she swims in a day.
2. Then after we times it by how many days in a year.
Which is 2,740 x 365=
 Working out the answer…

First you divide 1,000,000 by 25 (this is the length of the pool) which
makes 40,000.

Then you divide 40,000 by 365 (days in a year which makes 110)

110 laps for 364 days and for one day she swims 104 laps.
 Our Solution!
So the answer would be 110 laps everyday and for just one day she
swims 104 laps. And there is the answer. 110 laps for 364 days and 104
laps for 1 day
 How did we work it out?
We worked it out by first starting with 1,000,000.
Then we divided by 25 (the length of the pool). The answer
was 40,000.
Then we divided 40,000 by 365 (the days in a year) and we got
109. (we rounded it up to 110)
Then we calculated that she has to swim 110 meters for 364
days and for 1 day she has to swim 104 meters.
This is not the accurate answer but it is the approximate
answer. In all I think we did a pretty good job even though we
did not get the exact answer.
 RE FL EC T
RE=Really Empowered, FL=Feel like learning, EC=Effort could improve this, T = Tell me more!

Number Knowledge RE FL EC T Comment

and Operations
Did I know enough
about 1,000,000 to
FL We were kind of organized.
solve this problem?
Did understanding how T Yeah it kind of helped us.
a numbers place is
connected to its value
or size help me to solve
the problem?

What strategies did I FL We used a lot of division to find our answer and a little bit of
use? Explain
(division, multiplication.
multiplication,
subtraction, factors,
multiples, etc)
 RE FL EC T
RE=Really Empowered, FL=Feel like learning, EC=Effort could improve this, T = Tell me more!

Problem Solving Strategies RE FL EC T

Comment

1. Did we create a good plan and change it when FL Yeah I think that the plan I a lot different then the approximate answer.
needed?

2. Did we organise for different people to help or FL Yeah some people helped us a lot.
complete different tasks?

5. How did I use familiar landmarks I don’t think we used any

(or groups of numbers) T
to solve the problem?

How did I check my estimations? RE By rounding to the nearest 10 to make it more simple

How did I check my calculations? RE By checking with other people that are good at math
How Does the Number 1,000,000
help us learn number strategies
that help with everyday life?

Pre Assessment

NIST Year 6
What do I know
about
1,000,000?
 Instructions
• Work alone or with a partner.
• Read through the problem.
• Devise a plan to solve your problem and put the plan into action.
• Prepare a short oral presentation to explain to your class how you
solved your chosen problem. Your explanation must include
[1] Your original plan of how to solve the problem.
[2] A step by step guide of what you did to get your answer.
[3] Details of any changes to your original plan and why those
changes were made.
[4] A detailed explanation of all your working out.
 Our Chosen Problem
Choose a problem from the slides at the end
of this presentation and paste it here:
 Our Plan…
Write your plan of how you will solve the problem here:
 How did we work it out?
Show how you have worked out your answer here.
Write a step by step guide of what you did to get your answer.
You may need more than one slide.
Include details of any changes to your original plan and why those changes were made.
Our Solution!
 RE FL EC T
RE=Really Empowered, FL=Feel like learning, EC=Effort could improve this, T = Tell me more!

Number Knowledge RE FL EC T Comment

and Operations

Did I know
enough about
1,000,000 to
solve this
problem?
What strategies
did I use?

How did I use

estimates?
 Problem 1
We are recreating the junior school library. It
needs to house 1,000,000 books that are on
average about the same with as an Oxford
dictionary. How many meters of shelving will we
need?
 Problem 2
Meredith is in training for the 2012 Olympics. She should swim at
least 1,000,000 meters during 2009. How many laps of the pool will
she need to swim in order to swim 1,000,000 meters? How many laps
should she swim each day?
 Problem 3
The more we read, the better at reading we will
become. Approximately how many pages of a
newspaper should we read in order to read
1,000,000 words?
 Problem 4
The NIST High school students are going to organise a mini
Olympics. The cafeteria ladies need to prepare 1,000,000
millilitres of ice cold water. How many NIST drinking bottles will
they be able to fill?
 Problem 5
Varakorn is in training for the 2012 Olympics.
He should run at least 1,000,000 meters
during the year 2009. How many laps of
the oval will he need to run in order to run
1,000,000 meters? How many laps should
he run each day?
 Problem 6
The space created by the dots on the ceiling save
paint. A painter is coming to repaint the ceiling of
your class and he needs to know the approximate
number of dots on classrooms ceiling.
 Problem 7
Someone has an OCD and would like to find out
the number of flecks in the floor of the corridor
outside of the classroom. Approximately how
many flecks are there?