Even in nature, solving story problems is important. How many apples will be left on a tree if seven are picked?

Use this resource with your students to practice not only identifying the problem and solution in a text, but also the character’s attempts at solving the problem.

Looking for a first grade worksheet to help your child with math skills? This printable is all about solving word problems with animal addition.

Do you detect a pattern here? Solve the problems by making a table.

Do you detect a pattern here? Solve the problems by making a table.

The best way to solve a complicated problem is to break it down. Help your students use the Read, Write, Draw strategy to solve word problems with this worksheet.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Word Problem Components.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

Use this resource to strengthen problem solving skills in math.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Solving Perimeter Word Problems.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Practice solving different types of subtraction word problems with this worksheet. Plenty of space is included for students to show their thinking!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Comprehension.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Word Problem Components.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Solving Perimeter Word Problems.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems.

Practice perimeter problem solving with this third-grade worksheet!

Give your student some frighteningly fun Halloween word problems to solve! They will be honing reading and problem solving skills as they practice simple addition and subtraction.

Use problem solving and critical thinking skills to find different sums in these puzzles.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.