Yesterday the children started their research projects as well as finished up with our literature part of the unit. Aiden is researching Tokyo, and Zoë chose samurai. They've finished gathering facts over the last two days and will be putting together power point presentations the rest of the week that they can share with their grandparents on Japanese Night.
Also, today they worked on 2 challenge problems. We started a new thing recently where they can earn 10 beads for each correct answer they get to a challenge problem. When I first introduced the idea, they read the problem and decided it was too hard and they didn't want to bother. Of course that defeats the whole point of a challenge! So today I sat down with them and let them slowly work through both problems. I realized it wasn't fair of me to think they would automatically know how to do these, so I showed them some ways to break the problems down and make them easier. They were so proud of themselves when they got the answers and earned 20 beads! Now I need to find new challenge problems. If you're curious this was one of the ones we worked on:
In the following addition problem AB + AB + CC = ABC, the three letters, A, B, and C represent three different digits. If A cannot equal zero, determine the value of each letter.
I got this problem from the math contest webpage. Thanks, Heather, for showing us that!
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