Guess, Check, and Revise Strategy

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, check, and revise strategy which is very useful especially for students who have not had a thorough Algebra I course.  For this 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, check, and revise

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).

3) Guess, Check, and Revise Class Notes

Extras:

Another Ken Ken Puzzle