Which of the following is an instructional example of teaching through problem solving?

a) Providing students with a list of area formulas and asking them to find the area of a given rectangle.
b) Teaching students the algorithm for fraction division and then asking them to find out how many servings of 1/3 pizza could be made from 3-2/3 pizzas
c) Having students develop their own word problems that use a recently learned algorithm.
d) After students have conceptual understanding of the area of a rectangle, asking them to find the area of a triangle that was constructed by cutting a given rectangle in half and then to generalize their process to how they might find the area of any given triangle.


d

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