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Personal/Social Development: Conflict Busters
Students examine the steps to problem-solving and apply them to real-life situations. They discuss the five-step problem-solving chart, observe and record conflicts for three days, and list and discuss how they would solve the conflicts.
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Personal/Social Development
Middle schoolers use real life situations to use their problem-solving skills. They, in groups, explore why rules are a part of life.
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Solving Problems
Students decide how many rides it takes at a county fair to benefit from bargain tickets.
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What You See Is What You Get
Young scholars practice visualization as a strategy for reading and comprehending math word problems.
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"Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Students access web sites have classroom activity ideas for the book "Math Curse." They read what other students have written about their own math curses and try to solve word problems.
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Extra! Extra! (Geometry Extensions)
Students respond to questions based on quotes, research, and logic, and challenge problems related to the current objectives.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Needs Math in Life at All?
Students think and talk about the ways in which they use math throughout the day. They add each way to a "math in real life" bulletin board and reflect in writing on the ways they use math.
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Math in My World
Third graders record in their journals the many ways in which mathematics is part of their world.