Case Study: Summary Of Problem-Solving Problem

The student that I worked with for this project was a Taylor. He is a nine year old Caucasian male that is in fifth grade. He attends Lowell Elementary, which is in a low-income community that has a significant amount of diversity in the school. This boy comes from a low-income, English speaking family. He has five brothers and his parents are separated. This student and I are similar in that we both come from a separated family with many siblings. One difference that I have with this student is that I was raised in a small rural town where many of the students come from middle-class families. Another difference is that nearly 99% of the students that I went to school with were Caucasian.

B. Summary of Problem-Solving Interview The problem

He saw that the problem said he needed to share the marbles among his friends evenly, so he knew that he needed to divide up the marbles in order to give each friend the same amount. Taylor then wrote the equation 120÷8=___. He did not know what 120÷8 was off the top of his head, so he used multiplication problems that he knew to help him solve it. Taylor knew that if he broke down the division problem into problems that multiplied 8 by a number, and the sum of the multiplication problems equaled 120, then he would get the answer by adding up the numbers he multiplied by 8. The first problem he wrote was 8 multiplied by 10 equals 80. Next he wrote 8 multiplied by 2 equals 16. He then added 80 plus 16 equals 96. Since this did not equal 120, he knew that he needed to keep multiplying to get to 120. Taylor multiplied 8 by 2 again to equal 16. He added the 16 to the 96 that he previously got, to get 112. The numbers still did not equal 120, so he multiplied 8 by 1 to get 8. He added 112 and 8 to get 120. To get the answer to the problem, he then added up the numbers that he multiplied by 8. He started at 10 then added 2 to get to 12, added to more to get 14, then added one more to get

An example of a problem I would write would be: Taylor and his family are having a party. They have 13 boxes of pizza from Marco’s with 8 slices in each box. If Taylor’s brothers ate 15 pieces, then how many pieces are left? This problem is relevant, because Taylor likes to eat Marco’s pizza with his family. The numbers in the problem aren’t too high, but I decided to leave them smaller since it is a multi-step problem and so it would be a realistic situation. From this problem, Taylor would continue to work on multiplication problems and he also gets more practice with subtraction since it is a multi-step