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Addition Scavenger Hunt
Aotearoa’s community event team is checking its budget. Solve each addition clue to collect the totals. Use a sensible written or mental strategy, and estimate first when asked. All amounts are in New Zealand dollars (NZ$).
Clue trail: add the event totals
Follow the clues in order. Show enough working to make your strategy clear.
1.At the welcome table, volunteers packed 2,785 programmes on Friday and 3,968 on Saturday. Estimate the total by rounding each number to the nearest thousand, then calculate the exact number packed.
2.The food stalls took NZ$4,875 in the morning and NZ$3,690 in the afternoon. What was their total takings for the day?
3.Three community groups collected donations of NZ$1,248, NZ$975 and NZ$2,386. Find the combined donation. Show how you grouped or aligned the numbers.
4.A stage crew worked 18.75 hours on Saturday and 26.8 hours on Sunday. How many hours did they work altogether? Write the decimal points in matching columns.
5.The event’s first-aid team recorded 7.38 km of walking on one day and 6.9 km on the next. Calculate the total distance. Give your answer to two decimal places.
Choose, check and explain
Use your completed clues to make a final decision for the event team.
6.The team adds the food-stall takings from clue 2 to the donations from clue 3. What is the combined amount? Include the NZ$ symbol.
7.Which calculation is correct for 3,486 + 2,759? Choose one.
- 6,135
- 6,245
- 6,145
- 5,245
8.A volunteer says 12.6 + 3.85 = 15.91. Is the answer correct? State the correct total and explain the place-value check that catches the mistake.
9.The event needs NZ$20,000 for its next project. Using the total from clue 6, how much more money is needed? Write an addition equation that checks your answer.
10.Write a short strategy note for a new volunteer: explain one reliable way to add numbers with different numbers of decimal places, using 8.7 + 2.46 as your example.
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