Room 8 loves 'Create a Number.' These are activites from Marcy Cook (a mathematics presenter) that are challenging, teach math language, help the students to see patterns in solving problems, and ... they are fun!
In this one, they were to create a telephone number. Can you see the clues?
There were 12 possible answers:
979-5133
979-1533
979-3155
979-1355
The last four digits were repeated with the prefixes of 997 and with 799.
Here we are working hard to figure out these numbers:
Can't you tell how hard Orion is thinking?
4 comments:
This is a great problem for fourth graders! I hope you had fun with it. I played with it this evening and found the 12 possible answers.
Mrs. C, a fifth grade teacher at your school.
We absolutely DID have fun with it! We're so glad you're a blawg-reader of Room 8 News!
Mrs. J
i love caryn !!!!!!!!! `vanessa
i love caryn too!
nicole
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