Process Logs
A process log is a strategy for word problems. The students will explain the word problem and explain the steps they will take to solve it. There is a worksheet for this process. It guides the student through the word problem, asking different questions. Students have to write out their thinking during reading the word problem and working it out.
The questions they answer create a dialogue between what they know and what they are learning by doing the problem. In this way, students clarify their thinking about the problem and the mathematics involved, they translate mathematical ideas and procedures into ordinary language, and they practice communicating about mathematics and reasoning in problem solving. Process logs are a type of learning log and have the advantage of reinforcing strategic learning processes that we associate with learning logs. Using Process Logs Teachers should prepare a writing-math worksheet for students with a word problem activity and an extra challenge. An example is provided to the right. These are the directions you might give the students on how to use the worksheet.
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