Purpose: to provide students periodic opportunities to respond to a previously mastered skill, thereby helping students to maintain their level of mastery.
Problem of the Day
Materials:
Teacher –
Student –
Chalkboard/overhead projector
Chalk/overhead pen
Appropriate concrete materials
Description:
Provide a problem of the day that focuses on grouping concrete materials on a place value mat or representing numbers on a place value mat with concrete materials. Orally give the problem while students read the question/prompt written on the chalkboard. Ask students to discuss the strategy they used to get the answer. The student(s) will demonstrate using appropriate manipulatives. Teacher models skill after this discussion, highlighting important ideas/features.
