FILL OUT THE CHART while reading, planning, and completing the Sample Work assignment. Use the questions in the boxes to help guide your thinking and ask yourself your own questions. Write
your thoughts, notes, and answers in the table as you complete work on the assignment. Go back and forth between
the PS chart and the assignment as often as you need – that is problem-solving.

Understand: What is being asked in the problem and what
does that mean? (Questions you can ask yourself to answer
that: What is the problem? What do you need to find or do?
What will your final answer look like?)

Think: What do I know and what does it mean? What plan
am I going to try?

: I will write out my thinking and work. (What you can
do to get there: Work out your solution/response using your
tools and information that you thought through. Show steps
towards completing the problem. Create an outline or map
to organize your answer.

I will write out my response to the question,
explaining my answer and what it means.

Part 2: There is a math student in distress over Algebra 2. Pi-Guy quickly travels to go tutor the student.
Here is Pi-Guy’s movement to travel to the student: he flips downward, flies 10 units to the right, and then
down 3 units. Write the equation f(x) to show the movements that Pi-Guy makes from his original location
(the parent function from Part 1). You do not need the specific type of function, just write in terms of f(x

: What is being asked in the problem and what
does that mean?

What do I know and what does it mean? What plan
am I going to try?

: I will write out my thinking and work. (What you can
do to get there: Work out your solution/response using your
tools and information that you thought through. Show steps
towards completing the problem. Create an outline or map
to organize your answer. Revise your plan if it doesn’t work
the first time.)

I will write out my response to the question,
explaining my answer and what it means. (Questions you
can ask yourself to make sure you did your best: Look back
at your work and Are you done? Does it make
sense, answer all of the questions, and is reasonable
(accurate)? How can you check it?)