250 Followers Everyone Wins Giveaway!

Stacia and I sooooooo appreciate all of our wonderful followers!!  We have reached 250, which astounds me!

As a thank you- I wanted to give show you something I've been working on for about a week now.  

PLUS there are sheets where there are four posters to a page in case you want to have students put them in their math notebooks (which is what we are going to do!)

We have been working on exemplars (does everyone call word problems that??).  This past week they had a  problem similar to this:  Fourth grade is going on a field trip.  There are 187 students, 6 teachers, and 14 parents going.  If 45 people can fit on a bus, how many buses will they need?  

So, you and I would add all the people going, divide that by 45, get a remainder of 27.  We'd realize that we can't leave 27 behind so we'd need 5 buses.  Done (except the part where we write and explain how we solved, which is the whole purpose of exemplars).

So....most of my students....

DREW A PICTURE!  

No lie.

Drew all 207 people getting on 5 buses.

Really???  That's the best strategy???  

No.  

I have failed them.  

But now I have my superheroes done and next week, we are gonna attack some problem solving like MATH SUPERHEROES!!  (can you hear the theme to Rocky playing in your head, or is that just me?)

Obviously I have learned that we need to review different ways to solve problems and when some strategies work better than others and I think this is the perfect way to roll this out.

So, yes, I made you read all of that before I told you how YOU can get the posters for yourself (I'm so mean!!)  ;O)

This giveaway ends Sunday, Feb. 10th at midnight Pacific time.  I will email these out in a zip file to everyone Monday.

Rules of the Giveaway:

1)  You must be a follower, since this is a giveaway for our cuties that read our blog.

2)  Please pin these posters on Pinterest and leave the URL in the comments.

3)  Most importantly- LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS so I can send them to you!

That's it!!  We SO appreciate you for following our little blog!!  

What do you think about the posters?  How do you teach problem solving?  

*Amanda*

PS- They did get the right answer, which is great, but hopefully they'll see they could have gotten to it in a different way!