/adultnumeracycenter/in-defense-of-guess-and-check/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /adultnumeracycenter/in-defense-of-guess-and-check/#comment-24 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 02:19:37 +0000 https://adultnumeracyatterc.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-24 […] 5. Guess and check. Even when a situation is not multiple choice, guess and check can be a good strategy for identifying a missing number. If encountering this kind of question on a test, guess and check gets a little boost because the student already knows the answer must be one of the five answer choices. However, a slightly better strategy is an educated guess and check. Before playing plug-and-chug with the answer choices, students should still make an estimate and use it to inform their first guess — and then use the results of each guess to inform the next. For a detailed example of this, with a similar problem to this one, see In Defense of Guess and Check. […] ]]> /adultnumeracycenter/in-defense-of-guess-and-check/#comment-15 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 04:52:39 +0000 https://adultnumeracyatterc.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-15 […] August, at a summer board meeting of the Adult Numeracy Network, the fabulous Sarah Lonberg-Lew (@MathSarahLL) shared a problem. Well, it wasn’t really a problem, more like something she […] ]]>