How long will we work?

Yesterday's problem was a little tricky for the large group.  It was called "Movie Money" and we had to find out how long a person at the movies had to work.

As a class we read the problem, then did a K -W-C to help us understand the problem :

Many of us struggles to remember the conditions of the problem and put all of the steps into order to solve this problem.  Today we used the ladybug to help us talk our way through the problem.

We broke the problem down into steps.  Then we put the steps together to help us see what time the person needed to be at work at.  Then To find out what time they would end their shift at.  We also put together a number line to find out how many hours the person would work and then wrote out our answer in a clear sentence.

I think we all feel a little better in answering problems like this in the future.

Happy learning!

Ms. Pike :)