Each bus can hold 11 passengers.
Can you assign families to buses without having to split families up?
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Imagine you are the driver of a bus that begins its route with twelve passengers.
At the first stop one person gets off the bus and five people get on.
At the second stop two people get off the bus and seven people get on.
At the third stop nine people get off the bus and six people get on.
What is the name of the bus driver?
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Teacher, do your students have access to computers such as tablets, iPads or Laptops? This page was really designed for projection on a whiteboard but if you really want the students to have access to it here is a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments: Transum.org/go/?Start=October3 However it would be better to assign one of the student interactive activities below. |
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Here is the URL which will take them to an interactive puzzle about a different form of transportation.