This term our school has been involved in a project called “Small Words Count” as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations.

We have been looking at word problems, how they are written, what they are asking us to do, and how we should read and interpret what we have to do.

Each class had to demonstrate what they had been learning about in this project.

We constructed some designs and made up word problems using percentages or fractions.

This is what we came up with: