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Fiction Graphic Organizers
Analyze a fictional text with a four-page packet that explores a story's main character and moral, challenges scholars to ask and answer questions about the text, and to create a story map.
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Teaching Economics Using LUNCH MONEY
Students, after reading the book "Lunch Money" by Andrew Clements, explore money and different saving places. They research different ways in which productivity has increased over the years, they examine products to determine if the...
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Real-Life Problems: Measures
Do your fifth graders have trouble writing out their work for word problems? Use this instructional activity about measurements and the four equations, which provides separate spaces to write the equations and the answers. A nice way to...
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Customary Units of Weight - Practice 12.4
Upper graders find missing numbers, determine the best unit to weight certain items, compare and solve two test prep questions. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Add Tens and Ones
Six story problems challenge young mathematicians to add single- and double-digit numbers. Manipulatives would come in very handy for primary graders tackling this activity. Some of the sums have addends as large as 25 and 33. Some...
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Missing Addends
In this missing addends activity, students solve 6 word problems where they are given 1 addend and the sum and must find the missing addend in order to solve each problem.
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Model Multiplication
In this multiplication practice activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to use models to multiply.
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Rename to Subtract
In this subtraction of fractions practice learning exercise, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require renaming.
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Ladybird Addition
In this addition worksheet, students solve 6 problems in which single digit numbers on each side of the ladybug's body are added. The spots help students count.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Draw a Picture: Practice
In this fraction drawing worksheet, students read the fraction word problems. Students then draw a picture to help them solve the word problem.
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Problem-Solving Application: Use a Graph
In this problem solving worksheet, 6th graders use the problem solving steps of understand, plan, solve and look back to answer a graphing question.
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The Chicken Soup Problem
For this algebra worksheets students rewrite word problems using algebraic symbols. They use order of operation to solve for the variables used as they relate to multiplication and addition. There is an answer key.