Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Draw and label a table.

Fill in the facts you know.

Consider the possible answers.

Are the answers reasonable?

Is each boy wearing another boy’s cap

and a different boy’s scarf? Ye s.

Visualize the facts of the

problem as you reread it.

Facts: Hoshi wears Yori’s cap.

Each wears another boy’s cap

and a differentboy’s scarf.

Question: Whose cap and scarf is each

boy wearing?

Lee, Hoshi, and Yo r i have their hats and scarves

mixed up. Each boy puts on another boy’s cap

and a different boy’s scarf. Hoshi wears Yori’s cap.

Whose cap and scarf does each boy wear?

Problem-Solving Strategy:

Logical Reasoning

2-10

Hoshi wears Yori’s cap, so

he must wear Lee’sscarf.

Lee didn’t wear his own cap, so

he must wear Hoshi’scap and Yori’sscarf.

That means that Yo r i wears Lee’scap

and Hoshi’sscarf.

Lee Hoshi Yori

cap Hoshi’s Yori’s Lee’s

scarf Yori’s Lee’s Hoshi’s

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