Helping your child reason--getting more than a "yes" or "no" answer:
- What do you need to find out?
- What are you going to do first?
- How are you solving this problem?
- How did you get this answer?
- Why does your answer make sense?
- Can you explain that in a different way?
Story Problems
1. Tell your child a number story. Encourage them to visualize the action in the story.
2. Ask your child to retell the story after they heard it.
3. Ask whether the end result will be more or less than the amount you started with.
4. Ask your child to share strategies for solving the problem, including modeling the problem with cubes, Legos, counters, any type of manipulative, number line, hundred chart, drawing, counting with fingers, using number combinations, doubles plus/minus one, showing how they are counting in their head, words, a ten or twenty frame, an abacus.
5. Model methods of recording the problem, of finding the solution.
Students need to understand what is happening in the story, not just find the right answer. "How do you know? Show me how you know."
2. Ask your child to retell the story after they heard it.
3. Ask whether the end result will be more or less than the amount you started with.
4. Ask your child to share strategies for solving the problem, including modeling the problem with cubes, Legos, counters, any type of manipulative, number line, hundred chart, drawing, counting with fingers, using number combinations, doubles plus/minus one, showing how they are counting in their head, words, a ten or twenty frame, an abacus.
5. Model methods of recording the problem, of finding the solution.
Students need to understand what is happening in the story, not just find the right answer. "How do you know? Show me how you know."
Mathematically Proficient Students
Here is a PDF document issued by Wisconsin educators which is a summary of the Eight Standards For Mathematical Practice based on Common Core.
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