If our learning was super easy, would we be learning? When we embark upon new areas of learning, it should be a new challenge to us. It shouldn't make sense straight away. We should take time to process things, make connections and ask questions. This picture is called the Learning Pit. This week we have started daily problem solving during our maths learning time. Problem solving takes persistence, it requires us to realise we are not going to reach an answer straight away and we need to consider which strategy might best be used depending on the type of problem. Adrien congratulations for not giving up and figuring out the muddled medals problem we had this week. Some strategies we can use for problem solving include: Draw a picture, make a list/chart, trial and error or guess and check, look for a pattern, work backwards, logic and reasoning, write a number sentence.
Problem: Medals Count
Given the following clues, can you work out the number of gold, silver and bronze medals that France, Italy and Japan got in this international sports competition?
- Japan has 1 more gold medal, but 3 fewer silver medals, than Italy.
- France has the most bronze medals (18), but fewest gold medals (7).
- Each country has at least 6 medals of each type.
- Italy has 27 medals in total.
- Italy has 2 more bronze medals than gold medals.
- The three countries have 38 bronze medals in total.
- France has twice as many silver medals as Italy has gold medals
HOW WOULD YOU START THIS PROBLEM?
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