Day 47 – Specialize for Problem Solving

Math 8 – Today I am trying to get kids to extend their practice of using concrete examples and specialization for general math problem solving. The above picture was one example we did. Many students didn’t know how to approach this problem initially but they were able to re-frame it with a question they could do: they realized that 50% of 1480 is 740. This helps them figure out a method for doing the problem they really want an answer to.