You made great use of estimation

skills to solve this problem.

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:
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?
 Our Plan…
Write your plan of how you will solve the problem here:

Our plan was to go around the oval once and then divide 1,000,000 by the
length of the oval and then divide again by 361(356).

Why will you divide the number by 361?

Because there are 356 days in a normal year.

There are 365 days in a year!

 Working out the answer…

Show how have worked out your answer here.

It’s 134m around the oval and divide 1,000,000 by 134. It is about 7,462
and then we’ll divide it by 365 and it is about … 20
 Our Solution!

Varakorn needs to run about 20 laps each day.

Checking: 20 X 365 (days) = (10X 365) X2 = 3650 X2 = 7,300

7,300 X 134 = 987,200

Welldone, this is a good estimate!

 How did we work it out?
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 plan was to go around the oval once and then divide
1,000,000 into the length of the oval and then divide again
into 365.
 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
RE It took us only a few minutes to figure out the answer because
solve this problem? we knew a lot about 1,000,000.
Did understanding how FL It was kind of confusing to do it because a million is a big number
a numbers place is
connected to its value and it’s confusing.
or size help me to solve
the problem?

What strategies did I RE I used quite a lot of strategies to figure it out.

use? Explain
(division,
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 My plan didn’t worked out well.
needed?

2. Did we organise for different people to help or EC I did it by myself.

complete different tasks?

5. How did I use familiar landmarks (or groups of numbers)

to solve the problem? EC I did it by myself.

How did I check my estimations? RE I tried it again.

How did I check my calculations? EC I used only a calculator.

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:

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?
 Our Plan…
Write your plan of how you will solve the problem here:

5 times 1000000 =5000000cm divided by 100=50000.

 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.

We measured the book by cm and multiplied by one million and then divided by 100
and we got 50000.
 Our Solution!

We need a 50000 meters to fit 1000000 books.

 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 RE We knew enough about one million.

enough about
1,000,000 to
solve this
problem?
What strategies FL Measuring, multiplying and dividing
did I use?

How did I use FL By guessing and checking.

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 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?