Ep 247: Avoid the Digit Trap

11/03/2025 22 min Episodio 247
Ep 247: Avoid the Digit Trap

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Why do students not realize their incorrect answers are completely unreasonable? In this episode Pam and Kim discuss another trap students fall into when taught to mimic algorithms as 'the way' to solve problems.Talking Points:The patterns in Remove a Friendly Number Over strategyImportant place value conversationsHow students can be stuck dealing with only digits rather than magnitudeReasonableness, or "Ish", numbersParsing out polynomials into too many piecesCheck out our social mediaTwitter: @PWHarrisInstagram: Pam Harris_mathFacebook: Pam Harris, author, mathematics educationLinkedin: Pam Harris Consulting LLC