This learning activity requires students to use appropriate strategies to calculate long multiplication and division problems, and check the reasonableness of their answers using estimation.

The task is comparing 2 Port Adelaide players' disposal statistics to 2 Adelaide Crows players'. They are required to find the average number of disposals per game for each player and the total number of disposals throughout the player's career.

It has been carefully designed to spark students' interests and ensures they will need to use problem solving skills and reasoning to justify their answers. Teachers can easily focus on helping their students to develop their resilience, resourcefulness and reflectiveness within this complex and unfamiliar question.