1. PRIMARY ADDITONAL BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
AGENDA:
Problem Solving
Number Sense and Numeration
- early number concept
- counting strategies
- estimation
- early computation-
- conceptual vs. procedural (algorithms)
Outside Treasure Hunt- last slide
Patterning Activities
Data Management Activity
Next day’s assignment

2. DEEP THOUGHTS
Instead of having answers on math tests, can’t we just have opinions, and if my opinion is different than that of everyone else, hey, can’t we all just get along.
Jack Handy

3. THE HORSE PROBLEM A man named Joe buys a horse named
Moe for $60 from a woman named Flo.
Joe then sells the horse for $70, buys it
Back again for $80 and sells it again for
$90.
How much does Joe make or lose in the
horse trading business?

4. MAGIC NUMBERS Choose a number between 1 and 9
Multiply that number by nine
Add the two digits of your number (74 = 7+4= 11)
Subtract five
Find the corresponding letter of the alphabet (A=1; B=2; C=3;…)
Think of a country that begins with that letter
Think of an animal that begins with the second letter of the country
Think of the colour of the animal

5. PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES (Any one or more of these can, and should, be used for a variety of problems)
Dramatize or model the situation- act it out
Draw a picture
Construct a table or chart
Find a pattern
Solve a simpler problem
Guess and check
Work backwards
Consider all possibilities

6. OUTSIDE TREASURE HUNT
Find items that meet the following (bring them with you back to class and/or draw and describe them)
Something symmetrical
A pattern
A cylinder
An acute/obtuse/right angle
A number with a decimal in it
An isoceles triangle
Something one metre long
A quadrilateral
Pick up a piece of garbage and place in bin