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Students should carry no more than 15-20% of their body weight in a backpack or they may risk injury. Keep in mind that the average textbook can weigh around 5 lbs as you see the statistics below.
Student Weight Maximum # of Textbooks
75 lbs 3 books
100 lbs 4 books
125 lbs 5 books
150 lbs 6 books
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Critical Thinking Tip #7: When your student finishes math problems, ask them to teach you how they came up with that answer. Then discuss if that method and answer make sense.
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Critical Thinking Tip #6: Discuss with your student the use of fractions, decimals and percents in our everyday lives.
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Critical Thinking Tip #5: When doing a word problem in math, talk to your student about the information given and ask them to tell you how they will use it to solve the problem. Also discuss what information could be missing or if information is given that is not needed.
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Critical Thinking Tip #4: Ask your student questions about the main idea of the story and the author’s purpose. For example it could be to persuade, entertain, inform, etc.
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Critical Thinking Tip #3: Ask questions to your student that allows them to show their understanding of reading they recently read.
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Critical Thinking Tip #2: Ask your student about their opinions on what they read. Why do they like or dislike a book? Why do they think a particular event in a story is important? Why do they like or dislike certain characters?
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Critical Thinking Tip #1: Talk to your student about analyzing something they read today. Discuss if the reading was fact or opinion and how they know.
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