Excel Math Tour

Student Lesson Sheets

Problem Solving

The goal of this new feature is to enable students to express their own understanding of a story problem, and to merge math and literacy in one process. These are multi-level problem solving exercises that our panel of kids really enjoyed.

Problem Solving exercises are located on the back of the weekly test pages. Most students should be able to complete this during your class period.

We start with very simple stories and give students the chance to observe what is happening in the story. They use those observations to solve problems. Later in the curriculum we ask students to create a problem or two, and make up a CheckAnswer. Finally, students are able to finish a story in their own words, and write several problems about their story ending.

This demonstrates mastery AND integration into their lives – when they can write their own problems about stories they have helped to create, using math concepts they have learned.

Create a problem: back of test

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