1. Introduction to Model Drawing Elissa Scillieri

2. How would you do this?

3. What is Model Drawing? A tool used to help students visually represent word problems.

4. Why Model Drawing? Helps students visualize mathematics Requires students to show their thinking Addresses Mathematical Practices: #2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. #3: Construct viable arguments and critique the meaning of others. #4: Model with mathematics.

5. Reaching Conceptual Understanding Concrete Blocks, chips, etc. Pictorial Number lines, bar models, etc. Abstract Number sentences (equations)

6. First Grade Word Problem

7. Introducing Model Drawing

8. Now you try!

9. A Challenge!

10. 4 Steps for Problem Solving 1.Read the problem. 2.Write the answer sentence. 3.Work bit-by-bit to model the problem. 4.Do the math.

11. Use the 4 Steps to Solve This Problem:

12. A Two-Step Problem

13. Another Two-Step Problem

14. How would you draw a model for this problem?

15. A Challenge

16. Model this problem:

17. Be careful showing this problem:

18. A Challenge

19. Using models to show fractional parts:

20. Are you smarter than a 5th grader?