Getting Started on a New Problem

Group A...B...C...D...E...F       Problem #______

Name: ________________________

Fill out this form as a group on the first day of each problem!

Use this sheet as your title page!

1. What is the problem? (State it in the form of a question.)

2. What are important secondary questions?

3. How are we to respond to this problem?  (i.e. What product do we need to create?)

4. When does he/ she/ they/ we need this product?

5. Who gives us this problem?

6. Who will be our primary readership?  Secondary?

7. What can we be pretty sure he/ she/ they/ we already know about this problem?

8. Why does he/ she/ they /we need this product?

9. How will he/ she/ they /we use this research?

10. What are the most important objectives for us to reach?

11. (Answer individually) How might this research and doing this problem help me as a teacher?