PRIMARY ADDITONAL BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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PRIMARY ADDITONAL BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• AGENDA
• Problem Solving
• Number Sense and Numeration
• - early number concept
• - counting strategies
• - estimation
• - early computation-
• - conceptual vs. procedural (algorithms)
• Outside Treasure Hunt- last slide
• Patterning Activities
• Data Management Activity
• Next days assignment

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DEEP THOUGHTS

• Instead of having answers on math tests, cant
  we just have opinions, and if my opinion is
  different than that of everyone else, hey, cant
  we all just get along.
• Jack Handy

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THE HORSE PROBLEM

• A man named Joe buys a horse named
• Moe for 60 from a woman named Flo.
• Joe then sells the horse for 70, buys it
• Back again for 80 and sells it again for
• 90.
• How much does Joe make or lose in the
• horse trading business?

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MAGIC NUMBERS

• Choose a number between 1 and 9
• Multiply that number by nine
• Add the two digits of your number (74 74 11)
• Subtract five
• Find the corresponding letter of the alphabet
  (A1 B2 C3)
• Think of a country that begins with that letter
• Think of an animal that begins with the second
  letter of the country
• Think of the colour of the animal

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PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES(Any one or more of
these can, and should, be used for a variety of
problems)

• Dramatize or model the situation- act it out
• Draw a picture
• Construct a table or chart
• Find a pattern
• Solve a simpler problem
• Guess and check
• Work backwards
• Consider all possibilities

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OUTSIDE TREASURE HUNT

• Find items that meet the following (bring them
  with you back to class and/or draw and describe
  them)
• Something symmetrical
• A pattern
• A cylinder
• An acute/obtuse/right angle
• A number with a decimal in it
• An isoceles triangle
• Something one metre long
• A quadrilateral
• Pick up a piece of garbage and place in bin