Day 1 for Grade 9

We worked on solving a skyscraper problem.  We started off not really knowing how to do it, since we’d never done this kind of problem before.  We muddled around a bit and discovered some good strategies.

We worked in groups which helped because we could talk about our solution ideas.

Also we could view the problem from several angles, which really helped!

When we got discouraged we worked through it to figure out where we went wrong, or we restarted and tried again.

We used our perseverance!

When we were done, we could check it ourselves to know!  Some of our groups worked hard and could apply our strategy to bigger grids too.
It was a very good start!  Good work grade 9s.