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Synthesizing information is when you combine what you already know with what you have just learned. It is like the light bulb is clicking on in your head. You have made a big AHA!

Take a look at EQUATIONS TUG OF WAR, you can make connections with what you have learned previously about equations and come up with a strategy on how to solve this problem. You may question how to start solving the problem looking back to see if you have ever solved a similar problem. The next step you will probably do would be to visualize or draw out what each side of the equation looks like. You can also predict which side will win looking at which side won the two previous rounds. Each round is important to be able to present the solution to the problem.

Using all the strategies you may be able to relate this to writing out actual equations to help you solve the problem. AHA! This is an attention grabbing problem that relates itself to many of the equations you have been solving throughout the year!

Now you have a new perspective on how to solve equations. Here is a new problem to work on using what you have just learned and what you already know about equations.

SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION PROBLEM