Purpose: to provide students periodic opportunities to maintain mastery of a skill previously learned and mastered.
Problem of the Day
Materials:
Teacher –
Visual platform to display drawings depicting addition of fractions with mixed numbers (e.g. chalkboard/dry-erase board, overhead projector).
One or more drawings of addition of fractions with mixed numbers.
Students -
Pencil and paper for writing
Description:
Students respond to the “Problem of the Day” when they first arrive or at the beginning of math time.
Display drawings that represent addition of fractions with mixed numbers. A variety of prompts or questions could be written that students respond to:
What equation is drawn?
What is the solution?
Students can respond in writing or they can respond orally to the teacher on an individual basis (if writing is a difficult process for them). The teacher can take a minute or two after students have had the opportunity to respond to discuss the “Problem” and elicit student ideas and provide corrective feedback and modeling.
