Beginning this week your child will be getting a "problem of the week" sheet to complete at home each week. Problem of the week sheets will go home each Monday and they are due back on Friday each week.
Please feel free to help your child...but please do not simply provide them with the answer. I need to see where the kids are making their mistakes so that I can help them become better problem solvers. If we simply provide the kids with the answer, they do not have to work through the different steps that are required to solve the problem. Thus, MISTAKES ARE OKAY AND THEY PROVIDE GOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING!
It is my goal that that with these "problems of the week" the kids will develop a wide variety of problem solving skills and become confident problem solvers through the use of many different strategies.
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