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The Problem With Problem Solving

By Jessica Smith
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"How do mathematicians communicate their ideas to each other and to the public? If math is just numbers and symbols, how can we talk about math?"
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Strategy: Pictures/Object

Instructional Time: 1 hour a day for 2 days

#50
DRAW A PICTURE OR USE OBJECTS
Adriana and her mother are buying snacks for the family hike in the Green Mountains.  They are standing in front of two rows of three bins with clear plastic lids at the store.  The banana chips are above the malt balls and to the left of the trail mix.  The nuts and raisins are to the right of the carob chips and below the sunflower seeds.  How are the snacks arranged in the bins.

#22
DRAW A PICTURE OR USE OBJECTS
Frank lies awake in his bunk at the campground listening to the frogs croak.  Frank, his brother, and his two sisters are sleeping in the bunkbeds in the tent cabin.  The sisters and brothers from oldest to youngest are:  Mille, Frank, Stevie, and Irene.  Frank’s younger sister is in the bunk below Stevie’s older sister.  Frank and Stevie flipped a coin to see who would get the top bunk, and Frank Lost.  Where are the brothers and sisters sleeping in the cabin?