Maths DLO

Today Taha had a group discussion with Mrs. Tofa. The problem we solved was a bit tricky at first but then we got there. Mrs. Tofa split us into groups and in my group there was Eden and Viliami Ma'asi

The question was; Malakai's mother is making ta'ovala for all the boys in the Tongan group at school. Each boy needs 1 1/2 meters of mat and she has 30 meters of mat. How many ta'ovala does she make?

Down below is what my group and I solved.

First we add 1 1/2 with another 1 1/2 which equals to 3 meters.

So we times the 3 meters by 10 and got 30 meters.

So then we counted how many 1 1/2 we added altogether and got 20.

So then that is how much ta'ovala Malakai's mother made and also how many boys that are in the Tongan group.

Here is what Richie came up with

Solving this was really fun.