Encourage students to reflect on the context before solving story problems. Use these reflective questions during whole group, small group, or independent instruction.
Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students use different strategies to determine how much change customers should get back after making their purchases.
Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.
Give your students the resources they need to solve word problems with this math lesson. Your class will learn how to categorize important keywords using a WIKED map, a visual tool that helps them through the problem-solving process.
Use the worksheet, Holiday Shopping 2, to help your first and second graders practice adding or subtracting word problems. Learners will answer the problems and then discuss their answers with partners to show their understanding.