Which of the following is an instructional example of teaching
through problem solving?
◦ Providing students with a list of area formulas and asking them to find the area of a given rectangle.
◦ Teaching students the algorithm for fraction division and then asking them to find out how many servings of
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pizza could be made from 3
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pizzas.
◦ Having students develop their own word problems that use a recently learned algorithm.
◦ After students have conceptual understanding of the area of a rectangle, asking them to find the area of a triangle that was constructed by cutting a given rectangle in half and then to generalize their process to how they might find the area of any given triangle.