Teaching Habits of Mind: Helping students find ways in to problems

• Look for Patterns• Tinker• Describe• Visualize• Represent Symbolically• Prove• Check for Plausibility

• Take Things Apart• Conjecture• Simplify the problem

• Work Backwards• Re-examine the problem• Change Representations• Create

CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1

Make sense of problems and persevere

in solving them.

Teaching Habits of Mind: Helping students find ways in to problems

• Look for Patterns• Tinker• Describe• Visualize• Represent Symbolically• Prove• Check for Plausibility

• Take Things Apart• Conjecture• Simplify the problem

• Work Backwards• Re-examine the problem• Change Representations• Create

Tinker:

If someone multiplied the first 211 primes together what would be the units

digit of the product?

Tinker:

Make your own set of numbers that has:

a. A mean of 40, a median of 40, and a mode of 30.

b. A mean of 35, a mode of 30, and a median of 50.

Change or Simplify the Problem:

The number 73 can be written as the sum of

73 consecutive integers. What is the product of these 73

integers?

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