Grades 3-5 Math Problem Solving in Action_ Getting Students to Love Word Problems

100 ◆ Reasoning About Problems Reasoning About Remainders Remainders are difficult. But they don’t have to be. Start out by teac ...

Reasoning About Problems ◆ 101 Version 2: The third-graders are going on a field trip. They ordered 5 vans. If each van can seat ...

102 ◆ Reasoning About Problems Thinking About Others Thinking There is a specific genre of word problem types that ask students ...

Reasoning About Problems ◆ 103 Convince Me Problems Convince me problems are set up so that students can actually prove their th ...

104 ◆ Reasoning About Problems Two Argument Problems Two argument problems are great! They get students to think and reason to t ...

Reasoning About Problems ◆ 105 Decimal bars are just as helpful as fraction bars. Here is an example (see Figure 6.26). Ken said ...

106 ◆ Reasoning About Problems Mike and Mary are having a math discussion. They are talking about which number will make this eq ...

Tomas played a game with his friend. In this game they pick cards and then have to make the largest sum. Carlos picked 2,9, 7 an ...

108 ◆ Reasoning About Problems Key Points Students should have many opportunities to do pair and group reasoning activities. St ...

Reasoning About Problems ◆ 109 Do you do a variety of types of reasoning problems, including Venn diagrams, table problems, leg ...

110 ◆ When we are teaching strategies for problem solving, we must be facilitative rather than prescriptive. (Willis and Fuson, ...

Modeling Thinking ◆ 111 students should also work with vir- tual tools (see Figure 7.1). For exam- ple, the students might work ...

112 ◆ Modeling Thinking Farmer Betsy-Lou planted a garden. It had an area of 12 feet. What are the different shapes that this ga ...

Modeling Thinking ◆ 113 Figure 7.3 Chelsea Shoeck, [email protected] Farmer Betsy-Lou planted a rectangular garden. The garden h ...

114 ◆ Modeling Thinking Cuisenaire® Rods (bring them back . . . search the basements and closets) Cuisenaire® rods^1 are the for ...

Modeling Thinking ◆ 115 different parts (see Figures 7.9 and 7.10). The corn will have the largest part. The green beans will be ...

116 ◆ Modeling Thinking The Rekenrek Figure 7.11 Rekenrek (Number rack) http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-rack/ ...

Modeling Thinking ◆ 117 Problem B: Sue has 10 marbles. She has 2 times as many as her sister. How many does her sister have? How ...

118 ◆ Modeling Thinking Tape Measures, Yard Sticks, Meter Sticks and Rulers If you are going to have the students solve length p ...

Modeling Thinking ◆ 119 The second frame to introduce is the 10 frame. The 10 frames are great for teaching students the pattern ...