What is MODEL DRAWING?

Beginning in grade two, children will learn model drawing.  This is a strategy we teach to assist in problem solving and is used at all grade levels from grade two on.  In learning with a model approach, students create diagrams to represent problems/concepts with bars.  Drawing these models help students to visualize strategies, making algebraic concepts more concrete.  Model drawing can help children solve simple and complex word problems, develop algebraic thinking, help students visualize the part-whole structure of the problem, develop students' operational sense, and foster proportional reasoning.  (Source:  MIF Research Base)

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