Summary
You can’t eat off these tables! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby teach you all about how tables can help you solve word problems. You’ll learn some table basics, starting with rows and columns. Going through a sample problem, you’ll see how to make a table, what sort of data to include, and how to use information that you’ve already entered into the table to finish filling it out. Finally, you’ll discover what other information you can find once your table is all filled out. Problem? What problem?
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Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Problem Solving Using Tables:
- What is one new thing you learned about problem solving using tables?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining problem solving using tables.
- Draw or give one example of your own.