Name POW 11 Due Date Date submitted Total points/Grade At a recent convention of millipedes and centipedes held at the Hotel Fleeflea, the desk clerk registered 293 guests. He noticed that each millipede had 16 legs and that each centipede had 14 legs. Sean, the shoeshine spider, reported that there were 4,408 legs in total at the convention. He had to shine all their shoes! Can you help the desk clerk at the Hotel Fleeflea figure out how many of the registered guests were millipedes and how many were centipedes? Please attach all scratch work to your final copy. All work should be on another sheet of paper. Always write in COMPLETE sentences! “Algebra” may not be used as a strategy. ALL submitted work must be in your writing or typed on a computer. You must be able to explain all work on your POW. PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES Make an organized list Make a picture or diagram Use or look for a pattern Use or make a table Brainstorm Guess and check Work backwards Make it simpler Act out or use objects Remember, the main idea behind these problems is to be able to explain the process involved in problem solving, not only to get a “correct answer.” 1. STATEMENT: In your OWN WORDS restate the problem providing enough details to solve the problem. 0 1 2. PROCEDURE: a. Solve the problem, then EXPLAIN step by step how you found the solution. Provide DETAILS!!! 0 1 b. Show ALL your work, steps, drawings or tables. Label and organize all work on your final copy. 0 1 c. Name the main strategy that you used to solve this POW. Why? 0 1 2 d. Name one strategy that would not work to solve this POW. Why? 0 1 2 3. CONCLUSION: a. What is your answer? 0 b. Could there be other CORRECT answers to this same problem? 0 1 c. What 6th grade (or higher) math related concept did this POW teach you or reinforce that can be used for future problems? 0 1 2 2 3 2 1 3 4 5 4 5 6 3 4 5 2 3