What's Your Strategy?
Here is a sample cookie problem with three different ways to solve the problem. Which method do you like the best?
Goal:
Goal:
Your class baked 25 dozen cookies for the holidays.
What is the total number of cookies you baked?
Let's explore some strategies used by three different students. Click on each image to see the strategy each student used to find the answer.
As you can see, there is no one right way to solve the problem. You can use different strategies to solve. We'll explore each strategy shown here.