X and division strategies
Problem Solving
Six Traits of Writing
Chicago's Industries
Urban Gardening and Farming
100
This is a helpful strategy when you multiply at least a two digit number by a one digit number mentally.
What is splitting strategy, or place value strategy.
100
This is the first thing you should do when you get your problem of the day.
What is read the problem?
100
Brainstorming, choosing a good one, and thinking creatively are all a part of this trait of writing.
What is Ideas?
100
This person would generally travel a distance, usually by canoe, trading with Native Americans.
What is a voyageur?
100
This is when you combine the operation of aqua-culture with hydroponic fish and crop farming. They do this at The Plant here in Chicago.
What is Aquaponics?
200
This is a great strategy when you can't remember a fact, but know the fact before it.
What is use what you know strategy, or schema.
200
This is the second step in solving the problem of the day.
What is write what you know about the math?
200
A beginning, middle, and end are a must. It's got to have a logical pattern and make sense for this trait to be present. There is definitely a lead and a killer conclusion.
What is organization?
200
This is the reason many trading companies disbanded in the mid-1800's.
What is a depleted beaver population?
200
These are only 5 of the types of plants sold at the LS plant sale.
What are Marigolds, Cottage Pinks, African Daisy, Linaria, Flax, Rudbeckia, Asian (Thai) Basil, Sweet Peppers?
300
This is a good strategy for starting out remembering multiplication facts. It's not that efficient.
What is skip counting?
300
After you write your answer statement, this is what you should do.
What is check your work?
300
This is how you show your readers who you are as a writer and how much you love your topic. You are writing for your readers, and definitely want to read it aloud if you have this trait going for you.
What is Voice?
300
At one time, 500,000 US gallons (2,000 m3) a day of Chicago River water were pumped into the stockyards. So much stockyard waste drained into the South Fork of the Chicago river that it was named this.
What is Bubbly Creek?
300
This is a farming operation that has two rooftop vegetable farms in New York City. All together, the farms are made up of 2.5 acres of rooftop space.
What is Brooklyn Grange?
400
This math concept means to use the opposite of division to solve.
What is inverse operations?
400
We made $340 at the plant sale! We spent $130 on a classroom set of kid-sized garden gloves, and need to give a profit share to the seven other teachers who have garden plots.
What is how much does each teacher get in profit share?
400
This trait means that every word helps make your writing clear and interesting. Your verbs have power and energize my writing. The paint a picture without clutter.
What is Word Choice?
400
This market was founded in 1898, and was a spin-off of the Chicago Produce Exchange. In the year 1919, it was re-organized as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
What is the Chicago Butter and Egg Board?
400
This has existed since cities have across the world.
What is urban agriculture?
500
This drawn math model is very useful in solving large multiplication problems on paper.
What is an open array?
500
It is about learning, not performing.
What is math class about?
500
These are things that can really mess up your writing if you don't take time to edit them. The spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization are all correct, and you know because you read it aloud to yourself to check for them.
What are correct Conventions?
500
By signing this, you agree to a compromise between the management and labor union. You will have to agree to give a little to get a little for better conditions for your side.
What is an offer of arbitration?
500
This is the process that returns valuable nutrients to the soil by combing nitrogen-rich material with carbon-rich material and allowing nature to break it down.
What is composting?