Teaching Notes   Procedure: This exercise is designed to be taught in one or two sessions. For session one, distribute the students’ version of the “Terry Hansen” case study to your class. Have the students work alone or divide them into groups of two or three.   Read aloud to them or let them read one section of the case study at a time. Don’t let them read ahead. After each section, ask the students to brainstorm the answer to the question they have been asked. In the relevant sections, ask them to calculate the answers to the mathematical questions posed.   Finish by giving students the remainder of the class period to begin the written assignment, the memo to Terry’s boss. Help them organize the mathematical information they have calculated into graphs. (Samples and answer key follow) Closure/Assessment: Review students’ written work both for basic writing skills as well as for students’ ability to explain the steps Terry took in calculating his counter proposal, and for students’ ability to synthesize this information into a coherent strategy.   Then, in small groups or as a whole group, have students review the steps they should follow when they are confronted with a problem and don’t have enough information to decide what to do. Ask them to share personal experiences of having to gather information to solve a problem. What did they do? How did they use the information they gathered? What did they do right or wrong? What would they do if they were confronted with the same problem today?   Click to continue previewing the teaching notes on screen. Home Journey Log Trade Topics People Profiles Index Ask the Eagle