This week we have got a problem from James from the book James and the Giant Peach.
Here is a copy of the letter we got from him.
We got into groups with people from the Pentagons, Hexagons and Diamonds maths groups and talked about how we would solve this problem.
We quickly realised we needed to know how many grams fit inside one kilogram and it was lucky that we knew 1000g=1kg.
After we had discussed how to work it out with our groups we came back together as a class and shared our strategies before writing our letter as a class back to James.
You can see what we wrote back to him below,
Here is a copy of the letter we got from him.
We got into groups with people from the Pentagons, Hexagons and Diamonds maths groups and talked about how we would solve this problem.
We quickly realised we needed to know how many grams fit inside one kilogram and it was lucky that we knew 1000g=1kg.
After we had discussed how to work it out with our groups we came back together as a class and shared our strategies before writing our letter as a class back to James.
You can see what we wrote back to him below,
Dear James,
We know how much you guys can each eat of the peach without sinking.
How we worked it out was we knew that 1kg=1000g. So another 1000g equals 2000g that makes 2kg the amount of peach you said you could eat altogether. If there are four people we need to split the 2kg up so they each get the same. We started by splitting it in half to get 1000g this is enough peach for two people. Next we had to split it up in half again to find what a quarter of 2kg is. We did this by going half of 1000g is 500g. We checked our answer of 500g each by going 500g+500g=1000g (or 1kg). Then 1000g+1000g=2000g (or 2kg). We hope you land on the shore safely and that you remember to only eat 500g of the peach each.
Yours Sincerely,
Room 11 and Mrs Head.
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