Thing 1 and Thing 2

Love Solving Problems!

Margory C. M
• select tools, including real objects,
manipulatives, paper and pencil, and
technology as appropriate, and techniques,
including mental math, estimation, and
number sense as appropriate, to solve
problems.
• read, write, and represent whole numbers
from 0 to at least 20 with and without
objects or pictures.
• solve word problems using objects and
drawings to find sums up to 10 and
differences within 10.
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The Following
Problem is
"A rubber ball rebounds to half
the height it drops. If the ball is
dropped from a rooftop 18 m
above the ground, what is the
total distance traveled by the
time it hits the ground the third
time?
a. 31.5 m
b. 40.5 m
c. 45 m
d. 63 m

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• The first thing we are going to do is to
translate the word problem into our own
language or the langue that your students will
understand.
• Ones I read the problem a good idea is to add
colors to highlight key point that will help your
student translate into their language.
• If we release the ball from the top of a
rooftop at 18 meters it will drop and bounce up
half of 18 meters which is 9 meters. I will show
you in the next slice how I got the answer.
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 18m

The rubber ball rebound half of the

price. If the distance in were the ball 9m
was thrown was 18m.
What we are going to do is to divide 18
by 2. we divide by 2 because it telling
us that it rebound half. This will be the
first rebound.
18/2=9m
The ball will drop down 18 meters and
comes back up and it will be 9 meters

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we found that 18m / 2m = 9. meaning that
the ball was release from the rooftop and
bounce half. Now the ball will drop another
9m.

Drop 9 meters.

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 Rubber ball at the
top of the rooftop
This is the rooftop

When the ball drop another 9 meters

will go up half of 9 meters and it will
be 4.5. in details I will explain in the Rubber ball whe
next slide. rebounded half
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 The ball will bounce up half of
those 9m.Those 9m that we got
by dividing 18 by 2 we are going
to used those 9m to get the
answer for the second rebound.
We are going to take
9/2=4.5mthe ball hit the ground
third time.

Hit the ground a

second time.
Step 6 and final
step

• When the ball gets drop the third

time it will stay a 4.5 that we got by
dividing 9/2. now we are going add
how many meters in total the ball
bounced.
18m+ 9m+9m+4.5m+4.5m = 45m
• when the ball drop the third time
it has travel 45m

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