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Students will start working on this Problem Solving Packet by looking at the strategies and guided practice. They will start working with their partners on some of the problems during the following lesson. I have students work on this packet when we finish a lesson with extra time.

I call on a volunteer to explain the procedure for passing back papers. I pass back the Unit 1 Problem Solving packets and I explain that we are only going to start working on this packet today. Students will work more on it the next day in class.

I explain that my goal is that with time and practice students will not feel like the poor gentleman in the picture on the first page. We read page two together and I ask students if there are other strategies that they would like to add. I give students a minute to look over my work on page 3. Sometimes strategies are as simple as figuring out what operation would work, or creating a way to organize your work.

We move on to page four. I have a volunteer read the problem. Partners participate in a Think Write Pair Share. I give students a minute to think and write down ideas. Then they share with their partner and work on finding an answer. After a couple minutes, we come together as a class to share out ideas. I explain that sometimes you use the information from a problem to take a guess and check to see if it works.

We go through the same process with the problem about Mireya. After students have worked with their partner I call on students to share their ideas and strategies. If a student doesn’t mention it, I show them how creating a time line can help organize the information and work backwards to figure out when she left school.

If we have time, students start to work on the problems with their partner. They are engaging in MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them and MP4: Model with mathematics. They can choose whichever problem they want to work on as a pair. Once they have an answer, they raise their hand to check in with me before moving on.

At the end of the time I explain that students will need to have this packet ready. Students return to their seats and put their materials away.