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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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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, learners 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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Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
For 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 worksheet, 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
In 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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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 worksheet, 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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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies learning exercise, students 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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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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Identifying Patterns

For Students 3rd - 4th
Investigators examine the clues to complete 17 sequences by skip counting backwards. There are two examples to get them started, and all of these patterns include the first three numbers but are missing the last five. If you want...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Shirt Sale

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Everyone loves a good deal, and your mathematician's job is to calculate the original price when given the discount. A different type of problem than the traditional "find the percent change" has your learners working backwards to...
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Bismarck Public Schools

Executive Branch Worksheet

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
Consider using this assessment on the executive branch of the United States Constitution to help you work backward and plan your curriculum accordingly. The worksheet covers who specifically holds the office of chief executive,...
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Counting Forward or Back

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
What comes next? Young counters follow the stone path to each house, filling in numbers in a sequence as they go. Some of these move forward and some backward, but all progress by ones. Learners start with given numbers and then follow...
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Math Learning Center

Second Grade Assessments and Scoring Checklists, Common Core State Standards

For Teachers 2nd Standards
How are your second graders progressing in their math skills? Find out with a series of math assessment activities. With baseline assessment score sheets for each skill, you can track how well your kids are adding, subtracting, telling...
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Working Backwards as a Problem-Solving Strategy

For Students 3rd
In this problem solving strategy instructional activity, 3rd graders roll a dice three times and record the number in the hundreds, tens and ones place on the chart, then solve an addition and subtraction problem with that number.
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Geometry: Area, Scale Factor, Circumference

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this geometry worksheet, students solve 10 problems regarding area, scale factors, and circumference. Students, in 3 of the problems, are given the circumference and asked to work backwards to find missing information.
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What's Missing?

For Students K - 2nd
Add a challenge for your young mathematicians' adventures in double-digit addition. Instead of simply computing sums in the 9 problems, they work backwards to fill in blanks among the addends. Resource makes a terrific extension or...

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