Problem Solving!

Every Friday, Mrs. Cassone invites students to participate in a 'Friday Trivia' challenge.  Sometimes, the trivia question requires research and sometimes it involves finding the answer to a question or problem.  This week, Mrs. Cassone asked the students to figure out how she could share 3 whole chocolate bars equally between 4 people.  Students worked together on whiteboards to show Mrs. Cassone a solution to this problem using pictures, numbers and words.  We ended up with a few different ideas for Mrs. Cassone and we learned a lot about problem solving also.  Today, "drawing a picture" and "Guess and Check" seemed to be the strategies employed.  This one problem involved understanding of equality, fractional parts, adding and division.  It was interesting (and informative) to watch these Grade 2/3 problem solvers in action! Thank you, Mrs. Cassone, for giving us some extra practice with our problem solving.  We can't wait until next Friday to see what the next problem will be.  We will be ready!