Teaching+Math+Toolbox

__In the classroom__

 * Leave a pause when calling on students
 * match up students in a variety of ways, higher students with lower students, with same level

__Math Problem Solving Strategies__

 * When doing trial and error, start with small, consecutive numbers
 * Drawing diagrams
 * Systematic lists
 * Eliminate possibilities
 * Look for a pattern
 * Guess and check
 * Sub-problems (looking at smaller numbers, and use consecutive numbers)
 * Solve an easier related problem (related to sub-problems)
 * Physical representations
 * act it out
 * make a model
 * use manipulatives
 * Work backwards

Division: Partitioning: There are 12 apples, you have 3 bags. How many apples can fit in each bag if each bag has an equal number of apples? You disperse 1 at a time. Repeated subtraction:

Fractions: 3/4 * 8/5

5/8 * 8/5

You want to get a denominator of 1.