Tonight's homework was to rewrite a word problem you solved in class and understood. You had to rewrite it so it related to your life. Here is what my original problem looked like.
I then rewrote the problem to relate to my own life using the same numbers, but different content.
Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Wiles-Stasko, and Mrs. Sordillo have 243 glue sticks in all. Mrs. Cummings give 16 glue sticks to Mrs. Wiles-Stasko and 24 glue sticks to Mrs. Sordillo. Mrs. Cummings then has 3 times as many glue sticks as Mrs. Wiles-Stasko and Mrs. Wiles-Stasko has twice as many glue sticks as Mrs. Sordillo. How many glue sticks did Mrs. Cummings have at first?
In class on Friday and Tuesday we will be using the "Explain Everything" app. We will be able to create our own step-by-step videos to help solve a word problem. Many of us found the videos I put on the previous post helpful, so I thought it would be fun for you to make your own.
It will look something like this:
I hope you enjoy doing this on Friday and Tuesday!
