10 Challenging Math Problems and Strategies to Successfully Solve Them

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Presenter: Ed Zaccaro, Hickory Grove Press
Core Area: Instructional Planning and Delivery 1D, 1E; Knowledge of Students and Student Learning 2A; Content Knowledge and Expertise 3B, 3C; Learning Environment 4D; Professional Practices and Responsibilities 6A
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

How can you make math problems engaging and fun for your students? In this 1-hour course from Hickory Grove Press, Ed Zaccaro demonstrates how to challenge your students while creating an enriched learning environment for math. Once you have completed this session, you’ll have a better understanding of how to incorporate real-life math problems into your classroom so students can apply problem-solving skills.

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Description

Problem-solving can be difficult, even for gifted students. This is why it’s important that each student has a "tool belt" of problem-solving strategies. Many of the strategies presented in this session will force students to change their normal thinking patterns and approach each problem in a different way.

You will leave this session with many unique problem-solving techniques that will help all students be more successful in math contests and on tests – including district achievement, SAT, and ACT tests. Each participant will conclude the session with 10 math problems that they can take back and implement immediately in their classroom. These problems will help teachers both interest and challenge their students of all ages.

In this 1-hour course, you will learn:

  • How to present challenging and engaging math problems
  • The power of exponents
  • How to solve problems with a function machine
  • About the 2-10 method
  • The language of algebra and how to solve real-life problems
  • Basic probability and counterintuitive problems
  • How to teach probability in younger grades

Other courses in this series:

Pathway to Mathematical Understanding in Early Childhood
The Missing Part in Most Math Instruction – How to Think Algebraically
8 Ways to Spark Intellectual Curiosity and Passion in Mathematically Gifted Students

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840 reviews for 10 Challenging Math Problems and Strategies to Successfully Solve Them

  1. luis – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent

  2. Tammy – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    You actually have to do MATH to pass this course.

  3. Sandra – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    This was interesting. I think it would be more relevant if I taught secondary.

  4. Maribel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course

  5. Anna – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great strategies!!

  6. Eduardo – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    I love the challenge and the idea of retraining our mind to think to solve problems.

  7. Lisa – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought is was great, thoroughly interesting. However, I don’t think a math test measures how I would challenge my gifted students using this information.

  8. Jesus – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Really enjoyed it. It show me new ways to think of story problems.

  9. catherine – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    I thought it was good but it was more for the junior high and high school level than elementary. It could have had more elementary type questions.

  10. Cristela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting, opens your mind to other ways of thinking.

  11. Ofilia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    To challenging for elementary teachers.

  12. David – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    It takes an interesting view of math problems.

  13. Samantha – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    Great!

  14. Jesus – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is great.

  15. Richard – ORANGE CITY (verified owner) –

    Very good course for math teachers teaching problem solving techniques. Good presenter!

  16. Eva – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great Information!

  17. Michele – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    This course taught me how to think critically about math problems.

  18. Monica – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed the math challenges in this and I will guide my students to these challenges.

  19. Rodolfo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great techniques to help our students become better critical thinkers.

  20. Monica – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    It really made me think and be focused

  21. Rebecca – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –

    The problems were great examples of how to make the complex and confusing into basic and understandable.

  22. Doug – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –

    I love his strategies of how to teach the students. It does not have them remembering formulas.

  23. Kayla – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –

    new problem solving strategies and higher-order thinking questions that I’m looking forward to introducing into my math class.

  24. Alan – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this module, the 10 questions that were posed by the instructor were very engaging. I particularly enjoyed the 2-10 Method and how it can be used when there are 2-variables and no numerical values.

  25. Barbra – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting and fun course. Will definitely get your students thinking.

  26. Jandi – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This was too above the grade level that I teach.

  27. Darcy – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –

    I want to utilize several of these problems in my class this year.

  28. Jessica – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    If you are not good at math, do not take this course. It will pick at your brain.

  29. carolina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very interesting.

  30. Lynn – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Loved the 2-10 strategy!!!!

  31. Kathy – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) –

    I like the math content.

  32. Neelam – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a wonderful course which opens an educators mind on solving problem techniques. Half we are just blind sided to.

  33. Delilah – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked that we got to answer the challenge questions.

  34. Paulino – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This is an excellent course to simplify algebraic reasoning.

  35. Liza – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Makes critical thinking look easy.

  36. Gabriela – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    Love all the techniques given!

  37. Veronica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    informative

  38. Lennie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was not appropriate for elementary.

  39. Jessica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great review of math strategies and methods.

  40. Shaylene – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked all the methods of problem solving

  41. Kenzie – EANES ISD (verified owner) –

    Gives good strategies to teach students for solving word problems.

  42. Guadalupe – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    Excellent!

  43. Klarissa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informational and gave great tips on math strategies.

  44. ALBINO – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent course

  45. Rosalinda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Challenging but fun

  46. Luciano – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –

    eye opener!

  47. Rachel – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    It is an amazing way to review some strategies that students can use to answer algebra problems.

  48. sonia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    good strategies

  49. Ana Sofia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    Creative problem-solving methods

  50. Robert – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very probing examples.

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