Math_Critique

Math Critique Article Critique: Problem Solving This article, Problem Solving is More Than Solving Problems, is about one teacher's concept of how math word problems should be thought out. In this article, the teacher takes the reader through a step-by-step process of the technique. It is really quite interesting to see how it is done. She says that it all started the first couple weeks of the year. Her students wanted her to show them how to solve all problems. Her first set of goals focused on helping her students learn what tools were available for the mathematical problems they encounter. She introduces a wide variety of problems that facilitate the use of multiple strategies, manipulatives, and calculators. At the beginning of the year, she starts with a problem that is easy to understand and that can be approached in various ways. She recommends that the process be done in a very specific way. She recommends that the students read the problem in a number of different ways. First she reads the problem aloud with the whole group. Then they read it again and have certain groups read alternate sentences to help students interpret the problem in a variety of ways. This step leads into students, problem, problems, solving, teacher, process, very, strategies, solutions, seems, really, groups, arguments, word, ways, variety, solution, says, read, out, important, group, first, different, classroom, after, year, work, understand, time, thought, things, take, solve, should, school