Becoming a Good Test Taker Divide and Conquer Make it Simpler

Objectives Review and/or learn strategies for taking a test. Practice the strategies using math problems.

Strategy #9: Divide and Conquer What is it? A strategy to help solve complicated multi-step problems. When do you use it? When you must solve more than one equation, or more than one problem within a problem. How do you use it? Break the problem into parts or steps. Then, solve one part or step at a time. Finally, make sure you have answered all parts.

Strategy #9 – Divide and Conquer Cindy is going to the store to buy 5 pens and 8 notebooks. How much money will she need if the pens are $1.00 each and the notebooks are $3.00 each?

Strategy #9 – Divide and Conquer Ali, Jeri, and Kim each put $7.00 into a jar to start their car washing business. They used $6.19 of the money in the jar to buy 1 box of soap. How much money do they have left in the jar?

Strategy #10 – Make it Simpler What is it? A strategy for solving complex problems. When do you use it? When you are asked to solve a problem with large numbers or many items. How do you use it? Reduce the large numbers to smaller numbers, or reduce the number of items given.

Strategy #10 – Make it Simpler Linda needs to buy horseshoes for 20 horses. Each horse needs 4 horseshoes. How many horseshoes does Linda need to buy? The point here is to show the student that the numbers can be made into 2 X 4 = 8 and then add the 0 in to get 80 horseshoes.

Strategy #10 – Make it Simpler Frank starts his math homework at twenty minutes past three. It takes him 57 minutes to complete the homework. At what time does Frank finish his math homework? The attempt here if for the student to make the problem simpler by solving for 60 minutes and then coming back 3 minutes.

When will you use the strategies you learned today? Divide and Conquer Make it Simpler

Your next session will be on February 6th Great Job Today! Your next session will be on February 6th