Team Problem-Solving Tournament

What You'll Learn

🧠 Teams compete to solve problems fastest and most creatively. Each round uses a different problem-solving strategy: decomposition, reverse engineering, pattern finding, or design thinking. Here's how to do it: 1. Look carefully at the problem. What do you see? 2. Think about what you already know. Does this remind you of something? 3. Try an answer! It's totally okay to be wrong — that's how we learn. 4. Check: did it work? If not, try something else! You're building your thinking muscles. The more you practice, the stronger they get!

Key Concept: Competitive group challenges

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Think About This

📖 You're reading a story and the character needs to use competitive group challenges. What advice would you give them?

Thinking Steps

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👀 What Do I See?

Look at the problem about competitive group challenges. What do you notice?

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🤔 What Do I Know?

What do you already know that could help? Have you seen something like this before?

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💡 What's My Idea?

Think of an answer. Can you think of a second one too?

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⭐ What Did I Learn?

Check your answer. Was it right? What did you figure out? Tell someone!

Key Points

Understand competitive group challenges

Apply problem solving to daily life

Practice this skill through investigations

Key Vocabulary

Step

One part of solving a problem

Try

Giving something a go

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Why This Matters in Real Life

You solve problems every day! When you can't reach something, you find a stool. When a toy breaks, you figure out how to fix it. That's problem solving!

Talk About It

Discuss these questions with a friend, parent, or classmate.

1Can you explain competitive group challenges to a friend using your own words?
2What was the most interesting thing you learned today?
3Draw a picture of what you learned and show it to someone!

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is the main idea of competitive group challenges?