Day 1 - Off to a good start

Although today felt like a slow start it was a good way to get to know each other and begin to look at how thinking and communication mathematically can be just as important and challenging as number crunching.

A few tips for solving big puzzles:

• Look for patterns
• Letters may represent numbers in a pattern
• Coloured or shaded patterns may be used as well
• Break big problems into smaller chunks 
• Instead of trying to apply a strategy for 10 items to select, try applying strategy to only 3 items, then 4, then 5 etc
• There may not be an answer key for everything we do, 

Today we did our first assignment.  

• Create your own pattern or logic puzzle
• Assessed upon
• Can the pattern be found?  Does it work?
• Explain your pattern and how to find the next steps
• does your explanation clearly demonstrate how to find the next step?
• Complete your own pattern
• did you complete it correctly? at all?