Transcript Problem Solving Strategies

Problem Solving Strategies
Presented By
Angie Coombes
Mikelle Mercer
Lori Patton
The 4 Steps to
Problem Solving
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Find out
Choose a strategy
Solve the problem
Look back
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Neal and Rhonda are going to Mallory’s
Department Store to get their picture taken.
There are four different doors into the store.
Then there is one escalator, one stairway, or
two elevators that they can take to the third
floor where the photographer is. Once on the
third floor there are two different doors into the
photographer’s studio. How many ways can
Neal and Rhonda go from outside the store to
the photographer’s studio on the third floor?
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The 4 Steps to
Problem Solving
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Find out
– What the problem
means.
– What question you
need to answer to
solve the problem.
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Find Out
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What is the question you have to answer? How many
ways can Neal and Rhoda go from outside the store to
the photographer’s studio on the third floor?
Where are Neal and Rhoda going? To have their
picture taken
How many doors are there into the store? 4
How many escalators are there? 1
How many stairways are there? 1
How many elevators are there? 2
How many doors are there into the photographer’s
studio? 2
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The 4 Steps to
Problem Solving
Choose
A
Strategy
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Choose A Strategy
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Would it be helpful
to “see” this
information in the
form of a picture or
diagram?
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The 4 Steps to
Problem Solving
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Solve it
– Work through the
problem using a
strategy.
– Record work.
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Solve It
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Begin by showing the doors into the store. How many are there? 4
How many escalators do you need to show? 1 stairways? 1
elevators? 2
How many doors go into the photographer’s studio? 2
Begin with one of the doors into the store. Then how many different
ways are there from the first floor to the third floor? 4 Choose one way
up to the third floor. Then how many ways are there into the
photographer’s studio? 2
How many different ways are there through one door up to the third
floor and into the studio? 8
Go through the same steps with the other doors. How many ways are
there through each door to the photographer’s studio? 8
How many ways can Neal and Rhoda go from outside the store to the
photographer’s studio on the third floor? 32
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The 4 Steps to
Problem Solving
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Look back
– Reread the problem.
– Does it answer the
question?
– Check the solution.
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Math Puzzlers!
1. Take the number of your fin gers multi plied by the
number of you toes divi ded by one half and add it to
the number of months in a year. What is the total?
2. A mother and father have s ix sons and each son has
one s ister. How many people are in that family?
3. Jenn has half the Beanie Babie s that Mollie has.
Alli son has 3 times as many as Jenn. Together they
have 72. How many Bea nie Ba bies does each girl
have?
*These are sample problems from Problem of the
Week which could be us ed as Problem o f the Day
questio ns. These are located at
http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/math.html
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References
Web Sites
http://206.152.229.6/problems/strategies.html
http://www.alief.isd.tenet.edu/Albright/problem.htm
http://www.puzzler.co.uk/logic/logic.htm
http://www.inxpress.net/~mclipson/logic/lpindex.html
http://www.inficad.com/~ecollins/logic-prob.htm
http://www.westnet.com/~segalfam/logic.htm
Software
Math Blaster Mystery
Resource Materials
The Problem Solver 5 by Creative Publications
Problem Solving Poster by USD 259
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