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
pizza could be made from 3
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.
Example of instructional notes.
Answer to trig solving
Solving Linear Equations
Solving Inequalities
Problem Solving – Energy Changes in Chemical Reaction
Solving a cubic