Author Question: Part of your lesson plan for your seventh-grade class is to have them debate the merits of the ... (Read 101 times)

faduma · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Part of your lesson plan for your seventh-grade class is to have them debate the merits of the following argument: Teenagers should have strict limits set on the amount of time they spend each day on social networking websites (such as Facebook). This idea is

a. likely to be well received because students love to debate controversial issues.
b. likely to be well received because it means less time having to listen to the teacher lecture.
c. likely to be poorly received because adolescents are more interested in being like one another than standing out.
d. likely to be poorly received because no adolescent believes he or she should have limits placed on his or her social behavior.

Question 2

A student who is having a problem solving a mathematical word problem realizes that she might figure out a solution more quickly by depicting the elements of the problem in a drawing. This problem-solving heuristic is often referred to as

a. solving an analogous problem.
b. working on a similar problem
c. breaking the problem into parts.
d. creating an external representation of the problem.