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Sports Addition Challenge
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Sports Addition Challenge
Add carefully. Show your working for each problem. For the estimate question, round each number to the nearest ten first.
Add the Scores
Work out each sports total.
1.A basketball side scored 26 points in the first quarter, 33 in the second, 24 in the third and 29 in the fourth. How many points did the side score altogether?
2.At a cricket carnival, Isla scored 36 runs, Talia scored 52, Chloe scored 27 and Arjun scored 41. How many runs did the four players score in total?
3.At a swimming meet, a competitor earned 148 points in freestyle, 126 in backstroke, 109 in butterfly and 137 in breaststroke. What was the competitor’s combined score?
4.An Australian rules footballer kicked 18 goals in one month, 25 the next month, 22 in the third month and 16 in the fourth month. How many goals did the player kick across those months?
Choose a Strategy
Estimate where asked, then calculate accurately.
5.In four tennis matches, a player won sets with these scores: 6–3, 7–5, 6–2 and 6–4. Add the games won by both players across the four sets. Show how partitioning the numbers helps you add.
6.A netball team scored 42, 56, 37, 64, 48 and 35 goals in six matches. First estimate the total by rounding each score to the nearest ten. Then calculate the exact total and say how far your estimate is from it.
Create and Extend
Use addition to make sense of sports scores and points.
7.Invent a sports story that uses at least four numbers to describe scores, points or achievements. Write an addition question and solve it, showing your working.
8.A rugby team collected 72 points from tries, 38 from conversions, 57 from penalty goals, 16 from drop goals and 34 bonus points. How many more points are needed to reach 250 points?
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