Monday - Choose a specific type of problem from the Problem Solving section and make one of your own based on your style. Think in terms of a concept map. Incorporate things like definitons, geography, etc.
Example - #3 on page 18
Cookies are sold singly or in packages of two or six. How many ways can you buy a dozen cookies?
Materials - Actual cookies
Technology - SMART Board, videos, blogs, etc.
Definitions - singly and dozen
Strategies - table, direct reasoning, etc.
And anything else you can bring into the learning ernvironment
These problems have already been choosen:
Katie - #12 - 1A
Yulanda - #4- 1A
Melissa - #18- 1A
Caroline - #17 - 1B
Kyle - #5- 1A
Ellen and Helen please choose a different problem.
Respond to at least one classmate (constructive comments only)but you can comment on as many as you like but try and help me get everyone at least one comment.
I changed my problem from 17 - 1B to number 6 from 1A. I changed up the original question and created a different scenario:
ReplyDeleteSally and Bill began saving money on the same day. Sally has been saving 10 dollars a day, while Bill saves 15. If Sally has accumulated 50 dollars, how much money has Bill saved?
75 dollars.
The students could use materials such as rods and units, calculators to figure out the answer. Strategies that can be used to solve this problem include guess and check and multiplication. Accumulate is a possible vocabulary word within the word problem.
Ms. Frizzle brought her magic guitar to class. She she began by strumming the D string. She then moved up two strings and strummed the B string. She then played the E string which was down four strings. She moved up one string and played the A string. The next string she strummed was the high E string. The last string to be played was the G string which was two strings higher than the A string. How many strings does Ms. Frizzle's guitar have? Now write down what the pattern would look like as a strumming pattern.
ReplyDeleteAnswer: 6 Strings and the strumming pattern would look like this:
E -----------5---
B --2------------
G --------------6
D 1--------------
A --------4------
E -----3---------
In order to solve this problem you would need to discuss music notes, string instruments, strumming patterns etc. This problem is more of a combination of #12 and the race horse problem. Students should begin by making an illustrating and then identifying each string according to the directions of the problem.
After the students have completed this problem, you could have the students invent their own strumming patterns and play them for the class. You could even make a guitar out of a box of tissues, a paper towel role and rubber bands. This way the students could have hands on experience with playing the guitar while learning which string is which.
To Caroline: For your problem you could even use monopoly money and show how the problem would work out in real life. This way the students could have a hands on way to visualize how saving money would work in your problem.
ReplyDeleteDan, Katie, Billy, and Cory are in a pie eating contest. Cory eats the slowest, Billy eats faster than Dan but slower than Katie. Name the finishing order from first to last of the pie eating contest.
ReplyDeleteAnswer: Katie, Billy, Dan, and Cory.
The students will use logic and critical thinking skills to solve this problem. I would make sure that the students understood each verbal in the problem and have a mental picture of each verbal. The method that we would use is direct and indirect reasoning. I'd have the students use the information given or not given to solve the problem. I'm not sure of too many other ways of presenting this information to the students. I would appreciate some other ideas.
Kyle I think the use of the pie eating contest will diffently get the children's attention.
ReplyDeleteKatie,
ReplyDeleteDepending on the age group of the students I think you could shorten your question a bit. Otherwise I think the question was great!
And, this is Caroline. My computer is being weird and it keeps making me remake an account.
Jennifer picked her top 4 favorite flavor of ice cream. Jennifer's most favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate. She likes chocolate chip ice cream better than strawberry. Lastly she likes strawberry ice cream more than vanilla.Use the clues to figure out the order from most favorite to least flavors of ice cream.
ReplyDelete1. Chocolate ice cream
2. Chocolate Chip ice cream
3. Strawberry ice cream
4. Vanilla ice cream
Depending on time. This may be a fun time to take the students outside on a nice day and actually make homemade ice cream! There is not much explaining that needs to be done for this question. It is important that the student understands the terminology such as least and greatest.
Another thing that might be fun is to add in a little bar graph lesson at the end by bringing in all four different types of ice cream. As a class have the students figure out how many people want each type of ice cream. Then serve the ice cream to the students from the most popular type of ice cream tot he least popular type of ice cream.
This is a good idea Caroline you would also be introducing spelling.
ReplyDeleteHelen Wilson
ReplyDeleteTuesday, May 24, 2011Monday's Assignment
Perimeter
Perimeter of a park Monday's assignment
ReplyDeletePerimeter of a a rectangular park is 66 ft. The length of the park is 5 ft longer than the width. Find the lenght of the park.
1. Define perimeter, feet and width
2. Make a rectangular
3.Take the information we have to look at the problem
4.Decide what are we trying to solve in the problem
5. Write a equation x represents length
2x+2(x-5)=66
2x+2x-10=66
4x-10=66
-10=10
4x-76
I posted my problem somehow to my blog account but it did not appear on the same page with everyone else only the comment I made to Kyles problem. However, my problem is...The sign says you are leaving Mobile, Biloxi is 150mi away, New Orleans is 200 mi away. There is a rest stop halfway between Biloxi and New Orleans. How far is the rest stop from Mobile, if both Biloxi and New Orleans are in the same direction? Answer:175mi ...
ReplyDeleteMelissa- I think your problem is great! Experience based learning!! That would be a good way to get the students interested and have fun with math!
ReplyDeleteEllen
Ashley, Bob, Catie, and Denver are in a race. Catie is very slow, Ashely is the fastest, Denver is slower then Bob. What is the order of the race?
ReplyDeleteA-1st
B-3rd
C-2nd
D-4th
Materials - Individual Dry erase boards
Technology - SMART Board with Word for blank document to illustrate to class
Definitions - order
Strategies - table, illustrations
ALLEN Broad!
ReplyDeleteits good to see you on here friend! hope italy is wonderful you lucky duck!
Students love using individual dry erase boards so thats a great way to keep the students attention. I also like your use of technology with the SMARTboard becsause it a great tool to use for illustrations which would make the problem more concrete.