Question

Make Sense and Persevere

There are 5 players on a basketball team. In a game 4 players
scored 6 points each. The team scored a total of 34 points.
How many points did the other player score?
1. Tell how to make sense of the problem.
2. Tell the quantities you know. Then explain what you need
to find first to solve the problem.
3. Tell which operations you will use. Then solve the problem.

Answer 1

Last player scored 10 pts
Take 4x6=24
The use subtraction 34-24=10

Answer 2

Answer to question- 10

Workings:
5 players
Players X points
4 players X 6 points each= 24 points

34-24=10

The other player scored 10 points

1.?
2. Quantities needed to know- total points, points per player, number of players
3. Operations used- multiplication (times) and subtracting (minus)