Bad Arithmetic: Math, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking!

Description

This problem-set is all about arithmetic and numerical operations!

In this problem-set, there are a series of seemingly correct equations that lead to an answer that just can’t be right. This challenge asks students to use their arithmetic skills, along with critical thinking abilities like analysis, evaluation, and perseverance to puzzle through the series of equations to identify where it all went wrong!

Challenge your students to use their knowledge of operations and arithmetic, along with logical thinking, and problem-solving skills to figure out what went wrong, and why. They’ll need to dig into each step, and compare what they find with what they know for sure about how basic operations work to identify and explain the error!

This download includes a complete problem-solving journey to get your students thinking, including 2 unique, engaging, problem-solving tasks; the Problem, and its Exstemsion.

Created by teachers, with teachers and parents in mind, each task is built to challenge students to use their prior knowledge, and think creatively as they strive to solve the context-driven problems.

This download includes the following additional teaching tools:

•Thinking skills (what kind of thinking are kids building here?)

•Problem/Solution

•Exstemsion/Solution

•Supporting Questions (ideas for the questions you might as a student when they are stuck, place where they are most likely to get stuck!)

•Big Ideas (what are the math ideas built through this problem?)

No PREP required! Each challenge is ready to PRINT, and comes with an easy to use, 100% complete, and detailed solution!

Math Category: Operations, arithmetic, logical thinking, paradoxes, and problem solving

Perfect for grades 6+

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Bad Arithmetic: Math, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking!

Name: Bad Arithmetic: Math, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking!
Brand: exSTEMsions
SKU: 4952154
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Highlights

Digital downloads

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Grades

6th - 12th

Subjects

Arithmetic, Other (Math)

Standards

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP6

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Description

This problem-set is all about arithmetic and numerical operations!

This download includes a complete problem-solving journey to get your students thinking, including 2 unique, engaging, problem-solving tasks; the Problem, and its Exstemsion.

This download includes the following additional teaching tools:

•Thinking skills (what kind of thinking are kids building here?)

•Problem/Solution

•Exstemsion/Solution

•Supporting Questions (ideas for the questions you might as a student when they are stuck, place where they are most likely to get stuck!)

•Big Ideas (what are the math ideas built through this problem?)

No PREP required! Each challenge is ready to PRINT, and comes with an easy to use, 100% complete, and detailed solution!

Math Category: Operations, arithmetic, logical thinking, paradoxes, and problem solving

Perfect for grades 6+

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Standards

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CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP6

Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.