Webinars SET A - Grade 1-2 - Sunday@5:45-6:45pm EST - 10 MEETINGS-Recording 3

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The lesson introduced <strong>working backwards</strong> as a strategy for solving math problems that give a result but ask for the starting point. Students were reminded to use a four-step method: understand the question, choose a strategy, write down the steps, and check the answer.

The key rule is to <strong>reverse each operation</strong> while working backward: addition becomes subtraction, multiplication becomes division, and directions or paths are traced in reverse. The instructors demonstrated the strategy with maze and arrow puzzles, number calculations, and problems involving days of the week and travel time.

Students also practiced drawing simple pictures to organize information. Examples included finding how many apples one child had when two children shared eight apples, and solving a dumpling problem by accounting for an imagined 11 extra dumplings before returning to the actual amount.

The lesson emphasized reading carefully, identifying relevant information, checking units such as AM and PM, and verifying answers rather than stopping at an intermediate result. The main takeaway was to start from the known outcome, reverse the steps one by one, and check that the final answer fits the original problem.

Keywords

working backwards

reverse operations

math problem solving

four-step method

check the answer

maze puzzles

number calculations

travel time

drawing pictures

word problems