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Finding Solutions by Working Backwards

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students learn to solve word problems by working backwards. Students read the 20 word problems and solve them, choosing the best answer from 4 choices. There are helpful hints on the page to clue students to work...
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Working Backwards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore the concept that to solve some problems, they may need to undo the key actions in the problem. This strategy is called working backwards asking the appropriate questions.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward: Homework

For Students 5th - 6th
In this working backwards worksheet, students review the understand, plan, solve, and look back problem solving strategy to help them work backwards and solve the word problems.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this working backwards worksheet, students learn to use the problem solving strategy of working backward to solve the six math word problems.
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Number Word Problems: Working Backwards

For Students 4th - 5th
For this math worksheet, students learn to solve word problems by working backwards and turning the operations into their inverse partners. There are 25 questions.
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Problem Solving Strategy: Work Backward: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
In this working backwards worksheet, students read the word problem and then complete the understand, plan, solve, and look back steps to solve the problem. Students work backwards to solve the problem.
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Working Backwards

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders make up their own math problems. There is only one restriction. That is, the answer has to be the one you are going to give them in a sealed envelope. The problems that they make up can be anything they like. Let Students...
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Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math word problems worksheet, students work backwards to find the answers to problems with one digit numbers. Students complete 6 problems.
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Problem Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving challenge learning exercise, students work backward to solve a set of 5 word problems. Answers are included on page 2.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 5th - 6th
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve two word problems that require them to work backward to find the original number. There is an example provided.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward

For Students 4th
For this problem solving worksheet, 4th graders solve each of 6 word problems by working backwards. They use the strategy while working with money and decimals.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a “Backward” Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If you like poetry, wait till you try backward poetry! Young writers read Shel Silverstein's "Backward Bill" before writing their own funny poems that are full of backward imagery and phrasing.
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Working Backwards

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this calculations activity, students read the word problems and word backwards from the given numbers to determine the first number for each problem.
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Sunscreen Dot to Dot - Work Backwards From 21

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this number recognition and health instructional activity, students connect the dots to find a bottle of sunscreen. They start at the number 21 and work backwards to 1 as they form the bottle.
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The Answer Is Math Task Cards

For Students 4th Standards
Scholars work backwards to solve word problems with a practice page that gives an answer and asks, What is the problem?
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Problem Solving Strategies

For Students 7th - 8th
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different word problems that include working backwards. First, they determine various numbers by following the instructions and then working backwards to check....
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PreKinders

Pre-K Assessment Forms

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This is a Pre-K teacher's must-have resource for pre-assessing learners at the beginning of the school year! Covering everything from alphabet recognition and sorting objects to social-emotional development and work habits, this resource...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies activity, learners use the working backward strategy to solve 2 math problems step by step.
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Brain Booster: Subtraction Strategy- Working Backward

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this daily math problem learning exercise, students complete three activities that help them use subtraction and work backwards. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or hundred...
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Backwards Writing: Reflections and Symmetry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Why is "ambulance" written backwards on emergency vehicles? Young geometers apply principles of symmetry to translate words written backwards. See if your school or district subscribes to Jobland, where you can view a clip that explains...
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Addition Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this addition worksheet, students solve and complete 5 different problems that include working backwards to get their answer. First, they use the strategy of working backwards to fill in the missing values on each mobile shown. Then,...
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THE BACKWARD DESIGN PROCESS

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explain the practical uses of robots. They interpret possible careers in robotics, apply the safety guidelines of robots, and develop a perspective of the use of robots. They empathize with the cultural issues of robots in work...
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Refrigeration Part 2 - How they work

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate insulators and how refrigerators actually work to keep things cold through evaporation and pressure changes in the coolant. They create a box to keep an ice cube from melting, and observe a variety of...
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Backwards Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students create ways to do things backwards. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students participate in various backwards activities for an entire day. Students recite the alphabet backwards, spell their names backwards, and read stories...

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