{"id":686,"date":"2013-10-17T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-10-17T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:16:43","slug":"problem-solving-and-translating-math-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/2013\/10\/17\/problem-solving-and-translating-math-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem Solving and Translating Math Equations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really liked the idea of the partner problem solving for math. I think it is a good way to expose students to different methods of approaching the same question. It also gives students someone to help them interpret the content of a math problem which, at times, can be very difficult, even for high performing students. Given the proper pairings, I also think this activity can be used to get higher achieving, more fluent students to peer mentor students who may be struggling. The mentor can take the position of the listener and help clarify anything that is confusing the solver. Depending on the student, the listener may also be able to model the use of academic language. Afterwards, when the solver explains their solution, they are given an opportunity to use the new language they have learned and also explain how they extracted specific information from the written question.<\/p>\n

For many areas in math, being able to read the material is a challenge of its own, especially when the questions are written in math symbols rather than in words. There are many symbols that are very similar in appearance and can be very confusing. Here are a few examples of these similar symbols:<\/p>\n

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There are times when students understand all of the material and know how to apply what they have learned but are just not able to because they do not understand the symbols or words that are used in the question that is being posed to them. The more students read these symbols and hear them translated, the easier it will be for them to be able to distinguish them and be able to accurately interpret them in the future. As students proceed to higher levels of math this skill becomes increasingly important and therefore needs to be developed as early as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really liked the idea of the partner problem solving for math. I think it is a good way to expose students to different methods of approaching the same question. It also gives students someone to help them interpret the content of a math problem which, at times, can be very difficult, even for high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}