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

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The Maths Kangaroo webinar introduced two advanced problem-solving strategies designed to help students tackle more challenging math questions: the organized list and making tables. At the start, students reviewed a four-step method for problem-solving: understanding the problem, planning a solution, executing the plan, and checking the answer. A quick recap of measuring and comparing lengths using addition and subtraction set the foundation.<br /><br />The webinar’s core focus was on story problems involving multiple possibilities and data organization. Students first brainstormed items to pack for a forest hike, highlighting the difficulty in remembering all details and motivating the need for an organized list. This strategy groups related items into categories (like food, equipment, protection) to avoid omissions and repetitions.<br /><br />Next, the session demonstrated how an organized list can find missing digits and count occurrences systematically in numerical problems. The trainers emphasized reading questions carefully and checking answers repeatedly. Then, they moved to combinatorics problems, using organized lists to enumerate possibilities and eliminate duplicates, reinforcing logical thinking.<br /><br />Building on this, the webinar introduced tables as an extension of organized lists. Tables allow information to be arranged in rows and columns, aiding visualization, pattern recognition, and data analysis, especially with larger datasets. Through example problems involving mushrooms, paper cutting, and carrots eaten, students practiced creating tables and extracting answers methodically.<br /><br />The presenters acknowledged these strategies are challenging and typically appear in higher-point questions. They encouraged students to revisit recordings and practice, emphasizing the benefit of these tools in simplifying complex story problems by organizing possibilities clearly and thoroughly. The session concluded with encouragement to deepen understanding through review and practice.

Keywords

Maths Kangaroo webinar

advanced problem-solving strategies

organized list

making tables

four-step problem-solving method

story problems

data organization

combinatorics

logical thinking

pattern recognition