Table 1

Problems selected as the starting point for planning, implementation, and reflection

ProblemSolution frequency (National average)Group
Ball throwing at the market40%1
At the market, Maja throws three balls to earn points
The number of points she gets depends on which holes she throws the balls through
  • A ball through the smallest hole gives her five times as many points as the biggest hole

  • A ball through the middle hole gives her twice as many points as the biggest hole

  • If she throws one ball through each hole, she gets 120 points

How many points does Maja get if she throws a ball through the smallest hole?
Cinnamon roll makers47%2
Alice, Samira, Viktor and Robin make cinnamon rolls for the exhibition
  • Alice makes half of all the rolls

  • Samira makes 1/4 of all the rolls

  • Viktor makes half as many rolls as Samira

  • Robin makes 24 rolls

How many rolls do they make all together?
Nuts, bolts, and screws32%3
In a box there are nuts, bolts and screws
There are
  • 3 times as many screws as nuts

  • 32 more bolts than nuts

  • a total of 782 nuts, screws and bolts

How many screws are there in the box?
Cafe shopping64%4
Samira buys 2 cookies and 3 buns in the café. She pays SEK 54
Leo buys 4 soft drinks. He pays SEK 60
Kevin buys 2 soft drinks and 1 bun. He pays SEK 42
How much does 1 cookie cost?
Sweet production and ingredients
A recipe card listing ingredients for 60 sweets, including sugar, dextrose, water, citric acid, colouring, and pear essence.
55%; 18%5
a) Kevin and Maja are making sweets that the class will sell.
A packet of dextrose contains 1 kg
How many sweets can you make from this?
b) They have 360 g of sugar that they want to use to make sweets.
How much dextrose do they need?
The village animal count22%6
In the village there were four different types of animals: pigs, sheep, chickens and cows.
  • Every fourth animal was a pig

  • One out of eight animals was a sheep

  • Half of the animals were chickens

  • The rest of the animals were cows. There were 50 cows

How many animals of each type were there in the village?

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