Episode Details

Why do students not realize their incorrect answers are completely unreasonable? In this episode Pam and Kim discuss another trap students fall into when taught to mimic algorithms as 'the way' to solve problems.

Talking Points:

• The patterns in Remove a Friendly Number Over strategy
• Important place value conversations
• How students can be stuck dealing with only digits rather than magnitude
• Reasonableness, or "Ish", numbers
• Parsing out polynomials into too many pieces

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