If you want to see any of the Strategies or Jacksonisms modeled in a How-To video, send me a message on the comments page...I'll be happy to show you what it means.
Strategies
RUCAS- Read twice, Underline important info, Cross out things as you go, Action plan to solve, Solve and double check
Draw a picture
Make a list, chart, or table
Work backwards
Guess and check
Adjective-Noun theme (7/10 is the same as 7 tenths...7 is the adjective, tenths is the noun)
Try the answer choices in the problem, not solving the problem to fit the answers
Use a number line or place value chart
Use lattice or area model boxes (distributive)
Decompose and recompose numbers
Make simple numbers using mental math
Have a back-up plan to double check
Combine things that are alike
See the problem as individual parts related to things you already know
Think about properties of math, ideas that are constant, and math rules that always apply
Change the problem to a real-world situation that makes YOU more comfortable
Jackson's Pearls of Wisdom and Jacksonisms (Math Rules)
If you can read it, you can write it (fractions made into tenths, hundredths, or thousandths; Decimals are fractions)
Situational zero and opposites (it's a way of explaining positive and negative integers in the real-world)
Every fraction is just a division problem
Jackson fractions (improper fractions are top-heavy, like me)
Ratios, fractions, ordered pairs, and t-chart data are all the same thing
Strategies
RUCAS- Read twice, Underline important info, Cross out things as you go, Action plan to solve, Solve and double check
Draw a picture
Make a list, chart, or table
Work backwards
Guess and check
Adjective-Noun theme (7/10 is the same as 7 tenths...7 is the adjective, tenths is the noun)
Try the answer choices in the problem, not solving the problem to fit the answers
Use a number line or place value chart
Use lattice or area model boxes (distributive)
Decompose and recompose numbers
Make simple numbers using mental math
Have a back-up plan to double check
Combine things that are alike
See the problem as individual parts related to things you already know
Think about properties of math, ideas that are constant, and math rules that always apply
Change the problem to a real-world situation that makes YOU more comfortable
Jackson's Pearls of Wisdom and Jacksonisms (Math Rules)
If you can read it, you can write it (fractions made into tenths, hundredths, or thousandths; Decimals are fractions)
Situational zero and opposites (it's a way of explaining positive and negative integers in the real-world)
Every fraction is just a division problem
Jackson fractions (improper fractions are top-heavy, like me)
Ratios, fractions, ordered pairs, and t-chart data are all the same thing