Monday, May 24 class

The grid assignment was a lot harder than I thought it would be. None of my answers were in the correct grid, the closest I got was that two of my numbers were in the correct row. When we were trying to decide whether the first box was 1 or 5, I was convinced that Problem 5 was the easier problem because adding up two piles of different colored bears seemed easier than having a person give you bears to add to your pile. It turns out that Problem 1 was the easier problem because it is explicitly said to combine/join the bears, so that the student understands to add. Nowhere in Problem 5 does it say to add and this is why it is a harder problem. I was surprised to find out that Problem 5 is actually in the 3rd row, and not right next to Problem 1. After becoming more aware of the assumptions I was making, it became slightly easier to look at the problems objectively. When we came up with the categories/row names, it became more clear why problems were harder than others. I'm excited to find out the real placement in the grid!