Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compare Decimals Word Problems
Solve word problems by comparing decimals Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Everyday Math
Students will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the lesson, students will create their own word problems.
PBS
Pbs: Word Problems Using Addition and Subtraction of Fractions: Harry Gets Locked Up
This video features Harry and his cousin Harley. Harley is desperate to use Harry's bike, but first he must decipher the combination to the bike lock by solving a word problem. In the accompanying classroom activity, students complete a...
Other
Nearpod: Word Problems: Addition
In this lesson plan, young scholars will use key words and the part-part-whole model to solve addition word problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Convert Units Word Problems (Us Customary)
Solve word problems that involve converting between US customary measures of distance, volume, and mass. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Quadratic Functions: Problems (1)
The tutorial demonstrates how to use quadratic functions to solve word problems. Some topics discussed are minimum points, maximum points, and vertex. The activity consists of examples with detailed solutions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Volume Word Problems
Find the volume of rectangular prisms to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Systems of Inequalities Word Problems
Solve word problems that involve systems of linear inequalities. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
Purple Math
Purplemath: "Work" Word Problems
Explains the "trick" to "work" word problems (such as two people painting a room, or two pipes filling a tank), and demonstrates how to set up and solve these exercises.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Volume Word Problems: Fractions & Decimals
Practice solving volume word problems involving objects like fish tanks, truck beds, and refrigerators. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Change Unknown Word Problems With Number Lines
Second graders solve change unknown story problems using a number line. This lesson gives students a new strategy to attach change unknown word problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rational Number Word Problems
Practice solving multi-step word problems. The numbers in these problems may be fractions, decimals, and percents. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Systems of Equations Word Problems Capstone
Solve word problems that involve systems of equations, where there can either be a single solution, no solution, or infinite solutions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
On this site, there are several math problems to explore and solve. Look through some solutions by famous mathematicians and expand your thinking about some interesting math concepts. Teachers of elementary grades may want to use this...
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using Unit Rates?
Word problems allow you to see the real world uses of math! This tutorial shows you how to take a rate and convert it to a unit rate. Then, you can use that unit rate to calculate your answer. Watch this tutorial to learn all about it!
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Middle Years Word Problems: 1999
An archived collection of real-life word problems for middle school students, several of which involve money. Other problems focus on distance or time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Two Step Equations Word Problems
Practice writing equations to model and solve real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: How Many Miles to Go?
Practice in solving word problems. How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Equations and Inequalities Word Problems
Construct an equation or an inequality that models a given context. Modeling expressions can be quadratic, rational, or exponential. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is the Action of the Problem?
First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory lesson. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: Solving Algebra Equations With Addition and Subtraction
Kids learn about Solving Algebra Equations with Addition and Subtraction. Add and subtract from both sides. Example math problems are shown on page.
Other
Quick Math: Quadratic Equations
Complete step-by-step investigation of quadratic functions, allowing the user to input the function. Each step, from solving f(x) = 0 to graphing and finding extreme points, is covered in depth, via links for each step (requires...
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions / Amortization
A set of examples and exercises that cover how to solve mortgage problems by using exponents and logarithms.
Other
Siyavula: Textbooks: Mathematics Grade 11: Probability: Tree Diagrams
Learn what a tree diagram is and how to solve a word problem while using one. View the solution steps and examples for three different problems. Then practice by solving four word problems on your own and checking the answers to see how...