Create a Physical Representation

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• Chapter 10
• Create a Physical Representation

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• Four friends (one is named Janie) went out to
  dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Each ordered a
  different meat (pork, mahimahi, beef, or
  chicken), and each ordered a different kind of
  Mexican dish (tostada, burrito, fajita, or
  chimichanga). Use the clues that follow to
  determine what dish each person ordered, the kind
  of meat it contained, and where each person was
  sitting.

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1. The person who ordered mahimahi sat next to Ted
   and across from the person who ordered a burrito.
2. Ken sat diagonally across from the person who ate
   the fajita and across from the person who ordered
   beef.
3. The person who ordered a chimichanga sat across
   from the person who ordered chicken and next to
   Allyson.

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Make manipulatives.
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Manipulate systematically.
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Eliminate possibilities.
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Complete the solution.
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Strategy Create a physical representation

• Act out or use manipulatives in problems
  involving

• Arrangements of people
• Spatial relationships
• Logical connections
• Tangible or abstract numbers
• Unit analysis
• Order
• Organizing ideas