2008-2009 Problem of the Week Teacher Resources

Links to the Packets, Activity Series, and Online Resources (and more!) are available from the individual problem page (linked from the titles below). Since these problems were Current in the 2008-09 school year, access is restricted to teachers with a Class Membership or higher. More information is available on our Pricing Guide.

Packet - The Enhanced Problem Packet for Teachers, which contains an overview of the problem, teaching suggestions, our solutions, and, for problems from our Library, sample student work with suggested interventions.

Activity Series - Examples of problem-specific activities from our Problem Solving and Communication Activity Series. You can see 2008-2009's activity series, aligned to the 08-09 PoWs, below:

2008-2009 Problem Solving and Communication Activity Series

Online Resources - Materials designed to support the use of the problem, including related problems from the Library, questions and answers from the Ask Dr. Math archives, interactive tools such as applets and spreadsheets from Math Tools, and more!

If you have a Class Membership or higher, you can also view all of the problems from 2007-08 (note that these PoWs do not have strategy alignments).

Math Fundamentals	Pre-Algebra
Subway Tokens Zelma's ZIP Code You Think Your Teacher is Tough! Order in the Court Growing Worms Wooden Legs Nuts in a Bowl Building Barns Rugby Rules! Change You Can't Count On Dashing Through the Snow The Farmer in the Dilemma Toys To Go Chicken Little's Eggs Sharing Birthdays Zoo Train She Counts Seashells Sports Weigh In Four Dates Moons, By Jove!	Cadence Tiling Triangles Caliyah's Cart Women's Walkway Measuring Melons Ostrich Llama Count Two Heads are Better Than One Lillian's Lines Gas Guzzlers Unknown Numbers Movie Seating Top Notch Nose Contest Lincoln's Top Hat Mixing Marbles Peeling Potatoes Dollar Dealing Bartering for Bananas Suli's Sense Waste Not, Want Not Sing a Song of Sunscreen
Algebra	Geometry
Operation Warm Up Filling Glasses Eating Contest Sierpinski Stages To B or Not To B Voter Turnout A Championship Season How Many Ties? Two By Canoe A Slippery Slope Symbol Logic Pressed for Time A Phone-y Deal? Swapping Marbles Polynomial Power Fraction Debate The Bouncing Ball Field Trip The ABCs of Exponents Factor Bingo	Points, Lines, and Planes Divided Rectangle Dilating a Quadrilateral Where's Juanita Walking? The Shortest Possible Side A Minor Problem Triple Tango Pythagorean Circles Circle Derby Making the Biggest Triangle Two Rectangles Making a Six-Pointed Star The Coordinated Quadrilateral Snail's Trail Building a Regular Hexagon Pondering Pantographs Regional Ratios Flying High A Circle Inscribed in an Isosceles Triangle In a Pickle