How Do You Solve a Problem by Making a Table and Finding a Pattern?

How Do You Solve a Problem by Making a Table and Finding a Pattern?

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Making a table can be a very helpful way to find a pattern in numbers and solve a problem. This tutorial shows you how to take the information from and word problem to create a table and use it to find the answer!

Keywords:

  • problem
  • word
  • table
  • pattern
  • make table
  • find pattern
  • solve
  • word problem

Background Tutorials

  • Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.