Guess and Check Strategy - Sept 8th

Topics for Today:

Today we explored some story problems.  Students typically are not excited about story problems until they see and solve enough of them to start recognizing patterns.  One of the main focuses of the mathematics program at Field School is to help students organize problems and apply them to patterns we have worked with together.

Today we used the guess and check strategy which is very useful especially for students who have not had a thorough Algebra I course.  For the guess and check strategy, students take the information from the problem and try combinations until they satisfy the other conditions in a problem.  Organizing the guesses into a table keeps the work organized.

Vocabulary:

guess and check

Sections Covered in Textbook:

None - this lesson was pulled from other materials

Resources & Tutorials:

1) How to solve an equation by guessing and checking.
2) Learn Guess and Check (not a video).

Assignments:

1) Guess and Check Worksheet
2) Quiz tomorrow over decimal operations

Extras:

Another Ken Ken Puzzle