Chuck E Cheese Addition and Subtraction
I taught this lesson after the students had completed consecutive chapters in addition and subtraction. Many of the students struggled initially with trading and the algorithm for both addition and subtraction, but have since begun to master these skills. I wanted to give the students more practice with these skills, and show them that their hard work and frustration in working toward understanding this process has yielded successful results.
I also wanted to introduce the students to an open-ended task. Many of the problems that they are asked to do involve math fact fluency or specific strategies, but I wanted to give the students a chance to think critically, and be able to choose what strategies to use to solve the problem. I believed this task would help foster their work ethic, and push them to keep working at the problem.
I also wanted to introduce the students to an open-ended task. Many of the problems that they are asked to do involve math fact fluency or specific strategies, but I wanted to give the students a chance to think critically, and be able to choose what strategies to use to solve the problem. I believed this task would help foster their work ethic, and push them to keep working at the problem.
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Choose Your Own Adventure with Multiplication and Division
Each student learns and retains math differently, and each student will respond differently to different strategies. By introducing, practicing and making the students cognizant of the strategy they are using to solve problems, students become their own pilot to their math learning when given open-ended tasks and story problems.
Since we had done so much work with story problems and giving the students freedom to solve a problem using what strategy works best for them, the pilot math program requires that students take a test that asks them to use specific strategies for specific problems. In order to not only help them succeed on this test, but also gain a broader knowledge bank of strategies, I decided to use a day to review and apply the strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers by 3, 4, 0, and 1.
Since we had done so much work with story problems and giving the students freedom to solve a problem using what strategy works best for them, the pilot math program requires that students take a test that asks them to use specific strategies for specific problems. In order to not only help them succeed on this test, but also gain a broader knowledge bank of strategies, I decided to use a day to review and apply the strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers by 3, 4, 0, and 1.
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