Habits of Mind
Haileybury Habits of Mind Learning Resource Book
Imagine a learning community committed to using Costa and Kallick's Habits of Mind as the basis of curriculum design. The resource book is packed with lessons that are designed for and identify the standards and habits of mind targeted...
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Back-To-School Shopping
Fifth graders estimate the prices of items to be bought for back to school. They use catalogs and/or advertisements to research the cost of each of the items. They use problem solving strategies and a spreadsheet template to determine...
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Is That a Plan? Problem-Solving: Using Diagrams and Models
Student solve problems using a flow chart. They solve real-world problems by using a diagram or model. They create their own diagrams for problem-solving. They explain how they drew the diagram and solved the problem.
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Draw a Picture
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students read and analyze the instructions and examples for drawing a picture to solve a math problem. Students solve 1 problem pertaining to students' positions in a line.
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Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature
Sixth graders listen to Demi's, On Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. They use the problem solving strategy of finding a pattern to determine the number of rice Rani will receive after 30 days. They create a spreadsheet which...
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Problem Solving: Write an Expression
When practicing problem-solving skills students have to hone their critical thinking. In this instructional activity on problem solving, 5th graders have to determine which operation and what strategy to use when answering the word...
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Guess and Test/Make a Table
Students explore problem solving strategies. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students investigate the guess and test and make a table problem solving strategies. Students work in pairs to apply the problem...
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Problem Solving: Use a Simpler Problem
In this problem solving worksheet, 5th graders focus on using a simpler problem to solve 6 word problems. They work with decimals, fractions, times, and money.
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Leveled Problem Solving Solving Addition and Subtraction Equations
In this adding and subtracting equations practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Problem Solving: Find an Average
In this finding the average word problem worksheet, students problem solve and explain why the average is reasonable or not reasonable. Students solve six problems.
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Using Operations
In this problem solving activity, students read the strategies and steps to solve word problems. Students solve 2 problems about blue whales.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward
In this problem solving learning exercise, 4th graders solve each of 6 word problems by working backwards. They use the strategy while working with money and decimals.
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Problem Solving: Reasonable Answers
In this finding reasonable answers practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving: Ordering Fractions and Decimals
In this ordering fractions and decimals practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving Comparing Fractions and Mixed Numbers
In this problem solving worksheet, 6th graders solve 6 word problems in which they compare fractions and mixed numbers. They write the answers as improper fractions, determine which of the fractions is the greatest, who ran the fastest,...
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Leveled Problem Solving Rational Numbers and their Properties
In this rational numbers and their properties activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving: Slope
In this problem solving activity, 7th graders focus on slope. Students solve 6 problems using the given coordinates for each.
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Developing Environmental Awareness Through Problem Solving
Young scholars examine the relationships among living and non-living parts of the environment. Using their senses, they identify the objects in their classroom. In groups, they participate in experiments to discover where electricity...
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Math Tag
Students play the game tag inside the classroom with three or four designated 'taggers'. In this math game lesson, students have to solve a math problem to be unfrozen once they are tagged. When the frozen student has correctly...
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Math and Architecture Lesson
Students examine relationship between architecture and math, explore importance of inventions to humanity and relate math and architecture to their school and home by creating graphs, tables, and presentations showing development of...
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My Math Curse!
Math novices examine how math can help them in real-world situations. They listen to the book The Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, solve various word problems from the book, explore various math websites, write original math word problems,...
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Percent Increase and Decrease
Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of the...
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Modeling with Inverse Trigonometric Functions 2
Use inverse trigonometric functions to work with ramps, rabbits, and Talladega. The class models real-world situations with trigonometric functions and solves them using inverses in the 15th installment of a 16-part series. Pupils solve...
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Digging Dinosaurs
Build a function to solve problems rooted in archeology. A comprehensive set of five lessons presents problems requiring individuals to use functions. The initial lesson asks learners to find the possible number of dinosaurs from a...