ST.

ANDREW'S SECONDARY SCHOOL

MATHEMATICS- SECONDARY 3 EXPRESS
E-LEARNING DAY- JOURNAL WRITING/ SAIL TASK

Name: _____________________________( ) Class: _______ Date: ____________

___________________________________________________________________________

This assignment requires you to do self and peer evaluation. This empowers you to reflect on your learning as you
assess your own work as well as that of your peers.

Some copies of work were selected from amongst your Sec 3 friends Mid Year Examination 2015 scripts.
7 questions are selected.
For each question, there are a few scripts which contain errors or are not well-presented.

Your task:
1) On the other scripts, spot, circle and correct the errors starting from the line that your friend has gone wrong,
and complete the question.
2) On the script that has no mistakes, make an attempt to improve on the presentation.

You will be graded according to the following rubrics.

Grade Performance
2 Response is complete.
Directions were understood and followed.
Corrections and presentation are perfectly done.
1 Response is complete.
Directions were understood and followed.
Corrections and presentation are done fairly well.
0 Blank/ no response/ incomplete response.

TASK SHEET
 4 x 3
P1 Q1 Solve 3 9 x 27 x 2 .

Student A
Response:

Student B
Response:
 2a 3 3 a
2
P1 Q2 Simplify a and express your answer in positive index.

Student A
Response:

Student B
Response:
 h 4k 2
c
P1 Q5 Given 3k , make k the subject of the formula.

Student A Response:
P2 Q2 (c) After the production was over, the school sold the hemispherical prop to a
hardware manufacturer. The manufacturer melted the prop and made them into a
number of solid cones of radius 50 cm and a height 90 cm.

(ii) If the cost of producing a solid cone is $3.65, find the cost of producing
another geometrically similar cone with radius 150 cm.

Student A
Response:
P2 Q3 In the diagram, DF is parallel to AC, DE is parallel to BC and AD = 2DB.

(a) Show that CFE is congruent to DEF .

Student A
 Response:

(b) Show that BDF is similar to BAC .

Student A

Response:

Response:

P2 Q4 (c) Solve the equation 14x2 5x 12 = 0, giving your answers correct to three
decimal places.

Student A
P2 Q 5 The diagram shows the positions P, Q, R and S of four locations on a flat land. P, S
and R are on a straight line. QS = 1.4 km, PQ = 2.87 km. RS = 1.9 km, angle SPQ =
25 and Q is due east of P.

(a) Calculate
 (iv) the area of PSQ ,

R
1.9 km

N S

T 1.4 km

25
P
Q

(v) the shortest distance from S to PQ.

Student A
Response:
(aiv)
(av)