Class was very interesting. Figuring out the word problem grid was challenging and I am not sure my group would have gotten as far as we did without the "action" clue from Dr. Shih. Even after we received the clue it was still difficult for us to figure out what problems went into each section of the grid. It seemed like we just stared at the problems for a long time. Then something happened! Some of the problems started to look similar, i.e. they had similar actions taking place inside of them. Once we figured out the first action of, as we called it, getting then it was somewhat easy to figure out the first 3 sections. It took us a little longer to figure out the next 3 sections but we figured out that they were basically just opposites of the first 3 sections and instead of getting, there was giving taking place in the problems. The last 5 sections were a bit tricky. We think we have the rows correct, but we are not exactly sure of the column placement in the last row.
It is crazy to think that all word problems fit into one of these categories. It is even more crazy to think that not a lot of teachers know about this. Knowing about the different types of word problems will definitely make it easier to help students with word problems. We now know which word problems to start out with that will be easiest for kids to understand and that is really amazing!
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