Thursday, December 10, 2009

Final Exam Review

  1. (Ch9) Proportional Reasoning: Create a drawing that helps you visualize the relationship and determine an amount prior to the increase or decrease
  2. (Ch3, Ch8 & Ch9) Additive and multiplicative comparison and proportional reasoning: Be able to compare and contrast and write word problems that model them
  3. (Ch3) Subtraction: Write problems that model "take away" and "additive comaprison"
  4. (Ch6) Use benchmark numbers and number sense to estimate fractional values and find a number between fractions
  5. (Ch5& Ch6) Estimate operations with percents, decimals, and fractions and explain your reasoning
  6. (Ch4) Long Division: Use the scaffolding method which is sometimes called the "Big Seven" and compare it to the standard method of division
  7. (Ch4) Division modeled using "Equal Share" or "Repeated Subtraction"
  8. (Ch2 & Ch14) Working with bases other than ten: operations in other bases
  9. (Ch12 & Ch13) Be able to model position/time using a qualitative graph
  10. (Ch.7) Dividing by a Fraction: Write a word problem and model the solution process with a picture.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Ch.13 & 14 Test Review


  1. Write an equation that models the information from a story problem

  2. Write an equation that models the information from a graph

  3. Write a story problem that could be modeled by a graph

  4. Create a qualitative speed/time graph and answer questions from information given in a story problem

  5. Create a distance/time and a total distance/time graphs

  6. Solve a weighted average problem.