Math Possibilities

I use this as I teach my students to solve word problems. Too often our students are told to read a word problem until they understand it, but if they do not know what the word problem is saying that strategy will not work. Since our school does a lot of dissecting/annotating/close reading of text I wanted to incorporate that same thought into math.

There are five real life problems that get students thinking about money, mileage, and life. Students are given the problem and they need to come up with extra questions to solve to find a solution.

Students experience problems that they may encounter in life. Which allows them to use their math and problem solving skills if any of these problems happen to them at home.

Students will have to determine the dinner party for a Thanksgiving dinner. They need to find the recipes and the number of ingredients, all while trying to stay within a 75 dollar budget. Then they need to find the calories consumed during the meal and find ways to burn it off.

This is to help students solve problems by first finding possible facts in the problem. From those facts students can then determine the problem they need to solve.

Students will need to apply the rules of integers in order to evaluate the total yardage on a Green Bay scoring drive. Then find the average yardage per play. Lastly, write why a coach would want to know how many yards were achieved on each play.