Students who complete a story problem with a single number answer frustrate me to no end. Our current Investigation Unit is story problem heavy. Last week, I was a broken record repeating, "Where is your thinking?" and "How did you get that answer?" over and over and over again. So today, determined to solve this problem, we made a chart to help us remember what to do! It isn't the prettiest chart, but now we have a starting place to work from. As the week progresses, hopefully we can add to our list and begin doing this every time a story problem occurs.
Here's to hoping for some amazing math thinking.....on the paper!
-Laurie
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Thanks so much! It is a new fun hobby.
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