Tuesday, September 28, 2010



This week we have been working on developing characteristics of successful problem solvers as we working on the bikes and skateboard problem:

"A bike shop sold only bikes an skateboards.
All skateboards have 4 wheels and all bikes have 2 wheels.
There were 20 vehicles with a total of 52 wheels in the shop.
How many skateboards and bikes were in the shop?"



On Monday we discussed the importance of being persistent, and not giving up in the face of a challenge. On Tuesday, students finished working on their mini-posters and had a chance to share with their table mates to see different ways of solving the problem and become more flexible in approaching problems in different ways. For homework tonight, students are asked to choose a different method (such as using a table, guess and check, making a drawing, writing an equations, etc), other than what they had tried in class. Here are a few examples of different ways students solved the bike and skateboard problem.

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