Model Drawing

 Jean Ann and I have taught two thirds of our Model Drawing class. If the class runs three Tuesdays, how many classes are left?

You got it! One Tuesday left!!!!  But, can you show it to me to prove your answer with an extended response? The teachers attending our class can do it easily.

Many of our students (and teachers as well) feel this way about word problems.

  What is Model Drawing? And why are teachers coming to do word problems for an hour and a half after teaching all day? Model drawing breaks down story problems into manageable steps that allow students to "see" the answer, bridging the gap between concrete and abstract concepts.  The strategy uses the same steps from kindergarten all the way up to high school and beyond.

Using the same problem, students in your classroom can go from drawing simple boxes to algebraic equations in the blink of an eye.

Attendees from ICS, Nettle Creek, & Aux Sable work on solving word problems together!

Armed with pencil, paper, and chocolate attendees will be ready to face our final class solving rate, ratio, percentage, fraction, and multi-step problems!