Reviewer in problem solving
Unit method
Lesson 1: ROUTINE AND NON-ROUTINE
PROBLEMS
What is problem solving?
- Problem solving is the application
of mathematical skills.
Routine and Non-Routine problem
solving.
Routine
- From the curriculum point of view,
routine problem solving involves
Using at least one arithmetic’s
operation and/or ratio to solve
problems that are practical in nature.
- working out how much medicine to
give a child and measuring it
correctly
- using or interpreting statistics at
work to predict demand for goods so
that an order can be placed with a
wholesaler
- do not require Hots
Non-Routine
- It composes of a complex problem
that requires some degree of
creativity
- It requires Hots or higher order
thinking skills.
- Solve in multiples ways
The fundamentals of problem solving
Process
- Understand the problem
- Solve the problem
- Check the answer
1. Understand the problem
- Students need to start by reading (or
listening)
- Several reading or repetition
- Thinking about the problem
2. Solving the problem
- Use hands on materials
- Draw a diagram-help students to
visualize and organize the info.
- Guess and check
- Organize the information
- Look for the patterns
- Break the problem into parts
- Make it simpler
3. Checking the problem
Lesson 2: Strategies for solving problem
Strategies
1. Read carefully and then do basic
operation (if applicable)
2. Guess and check strategy
3.
4. Backwards method
5. Break problem into steps
6. Convert words to symbols
7. Build a list or table
8. Disregarding useless information
9. Look for patterns
10. Look for standard examples
Lesson 3: Investigations
Investigation
- Open-ended problem in which
students can choose to go in
different directions.
- Investigations are an excellent way
to establish cooperative learning
strategies in the classroom. Most
investigation require you to:
1. Explore the investigation
2. Gather and record data
3. Look for patterns
4. Make conjectures(guesses)
5. Test the conjecture and then
refine it and test it again
6. Explain or prove results
7. Make generalizations
8. Extend the problem
9. Communicate findings
3-digit number investigation
Exploration
- Read the Investigations, discuss
what the investigation is for you and
asking you to do.
- Making conjecture
- Go to More data to test
- Revise conjectures
- Verify conjecture
- Organize data
- Device conjectures generalization
- Verify conjectures
- Extend the problem
Mathematical investigations
- Refers to the sustained exploration
of mathematical situation.
- Problem solving is part.
 Systematic exploration of the
given situation
 Formulating problems and
conjectures
 Attempting to provide