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Monday, January 18, 2016

Sums, Differences, Products, Quotients

In our math huddle today, each student chose a digit between 3 and 9.  Due to the nature of the activity, 0, 1, 2 are too small and we wanted to use only single digits for this activity.  Then number the students chose was written in the center of a new page of their math huddle notebook.  This number then could represent a sum, a difference, a product or a quotient; meaning that students had to find equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division where the answer equaled the digit on their page.  This was a fun, challenging activity where students needed to think critically.  We also had some answers that involved multiple digits and operations, and the use of parenthesis was incorporated a few times.


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