The 57 students from Kapai school are going on a trip. Two thirds of the students can fit in a bus and the rest are going by car. How many are going on the bus? |
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Student: Sixty divided by three is twenty so fifty-seven divided by three is nineteen. Two times nineteen is thirty-eight so thirty-eight students will go on the bus. |
Students at the Advanced Multiplicative stage are learning to choose appropriately from a range of part-whole strategies to solve and estimate the answers to problems involving multiplication and division. These strategies require one or more of the numbers involved in a multiplication or division to be partitioned, manipulated, then recombined. |