This unit has been lengthy, but we continue to work hard on these basic skills.  Today’s lesson was on problem-solving and the language that we need to understand in order to solve our word problems.

After teaching the lesson on specific language to look for when creating an equation, the students started their practice using their whiteboards.  One problem at a time was delivered to each student.  They were asked to also focus on the Personal Core Competency of “perseverance”.  They did just that.  They diligently persevered through many attempts with different strategies.  We even learned how using simpler numbers in the same word problem can help us to find the steps on how to solve the harder numbers.  Nicely done Div. 5.   Wednesday and Thursday, we’ll finish up the lesson and continue to practice with our text.