Webinars SET A - Grade 1-2 - Sunday@5:45-6:45pm EST-Recording Webinar 8

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This lesson focused on understanding money-related problems in Math Kangaroo competitions, emphasizing careful reading and problem-solving strategies. The instructors introduced a four-step method to tackle harder questions worth four or five points, often requiring multiple steps and combined strategies from previous lessons. They reviewed guess-and-check, a trial-and-error technique useful when direct solutions are unclear, while recommending direct methods when known for efficiency.<br /><br />Students practiced interpreting price tags and calculating totals, highlighting the importance of writing down steps and checking answers to avoid mistakes. The lesson covered money values extensively, including coins—pennies (1 cent), nickels (5 cents), dimes (10 cents), quarters (25 cents)—and bills, explaining their appearances and values to aid recognition in questions.<br /><br />Several example problems were solved: computing item totals, understanding combined purchases, calculating leftover money for further buys (introducing decimal addition and subtraction), and using multiplication or repeated addition. Students learned to decode questions carefully, identify relevant information, and apply basic arithmetic or logical reasoning, such as determining individual item costs from combined prices or optimizing purchases for best value.<br /><br />Challenges included problems with decimals and logical conditions, reinforcing the need for clear notation, careful calculation, and strategic guesswork when necessary. The instructors stressed the usefulness of multiplication tables up to 10 for simplification and encouraged practice to internalize concepts.<br /><br />Overall, the lesson aimed to build foundational money skills, problem comprehension, and computational accuracy to prepare students for varied money-related problems in competitions.

Keywords

Math Kangaroo

money problems

problem-solving strategies

four-step method

guess-and-check

price tag interpretation

coin values

decimal arithmetic

multiplication tables

competition preparation