Fiona O. at Wilson Middle School began her solution to this
week’s Pre-Algebra Problem of the Week by listing all of the
possible strategies she thought she might use: - draw a diagram
- make a table - list possibilities - simple computation/logical
reasoning I think Fiona’s list covers almost every single
solution submitted. Good call, Fiona! The only other strategy I
noticed was that some students used “Solve a Simpler Problem” to
help them with their diagrams, tables, possibilities, or logical
reasoning. The problem, Trick-or-Treat Route, is about the
Anderson children’s plan for trick or treating in their
neighborhood (the students also had information about how many
minutes it would take to walk between each pair of houses):
Reading the solutions, I was really fascinated by thinking about
how the strategies Fiona named (plus Solve a Simpler Problem)
are interrelated. Here are some things I’m wondering about: -
Would making organized lists help students who jumped right to
logical reasoning, but whose ans