Example: A quote dig can be very similar to analyzing a students claim because they both involve examining into the quote they are given to find out the important information.

TEKS: 5.1(b) use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution, and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution;

Source: Alana Morris

Example: An example when this could be done in a math course is during lessons where students are relying their prior knowledge of the subject to each other.

TEKS: 8.1(d)use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution, and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution

Source: Nancy Motley (2016)

Benefit: This strategy involves students interacting with each other and helps build a community early on in a semester which is when the strategy should ideally be used.

Example: In my 8th grade example classroom I want to implement the reporter formula by asking students what they know about linear relationships.

TEKS: 8.5(I) write an equation in the form y = mx + b to model a linear relationship between two quantities using verbal, numerical, tabular, and graphical representations.

Source: 1st Century Ancient Greece

Example: In a 4th grade math course given a problem that was deals with balancing a budget students have to be sure they understand what they're doing otherwise they're at risk of mismanaging their funds.

TEKS 5.10(e) describe actions that might be taken to balance a budget when expenses exceed income

Source: Alana Morris (2023)

TEKS: Explain verbally and symbolically the relationship between the volume of a triangular prism and a triangular pyramid having both congruent bases and heights and connect that relationship to the formulas.

Source: Chapin, O'Connor and Anderson (2009)

TEKS: Calculate the total cost of repaying a loan, including credit cards and easy access loans, under various rates of interest and over different periods using an online calculator.

Source: Cronsberry (2004)

TEKS: 5.3(b) multiply with fluency a three-digit number by a two-digit number using the standard algorithm;

Source: Javier Martinez (2025)

TEKS: Solve real-world problems comparing how interest rate and loan length affect the cost of credit.

Source: New Jersey Writing Project in Texas (Joice Armstrong Carrol 1995)

TEKS: Use the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse to solve problems.

Source: Ogle Donna (1986)

TEKS: represent decimals, including tenths and hundredths, using concrete and visual models and money;

Source: Jennifer fischor-mueller, gene thompson-grove

TEKS: Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to represent, compare, and order whole numbers and decimals and understand relationships related to place value.

Source: Alana Morris (1992)

TEKS: Represent quotients of decimals to the hundredths, up to four-digit dividends and two-digit whole number divisors, using objects and pictorial models, including area models;

Source: John Seidlitz (2008)

TEKS: 4.1(g) display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical language in written or oral communication.

Source: Region 4 education center

TEKS: Math 6.9(C)

write corresponding real-world problems given one-variable, one-step equations or inequalities.

Source: Elisha Otis (1853)

TEKS: Display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical language in written or oral

source: New Jersey Writing Project