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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the 3rd grade, students are not yet exposed to algebra.  However, many answers provided here are algebra based.  What is going on?[/quote]

The problems can be solved using formal algebra -- and if you know formal algebra, that's probably how you'd do it. But they don't have to be solved using formal algebra, as other PPs have demonstrated.[/quote]

That's true, but it seems to be the case that they're not teaching any method to solve it.   [b]I think 3rd graders that could solve this without having some method explained would be few and far between.[/b][/quote]

I agree. It would have been a good Problem of the Week for my kid in fourth grade at the HGC last year, though.[/quote]

Yes, my daughter had a set of Math Olympiad questions very similar to this in her 4th grade HGC class each week, but the teacher would go over the answer and talk about strategies etc.  She also made it clear that she didn't expect kids to get every problem right and that they were learning a process of thinking and analyzing.  Just throwing it out there for 3rd graders doesn't seem like it would accomplish much unless it's tied into a larger lesson. [/quote]

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