Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solving Word Problems with Fish

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Send your class fishing...for the right answers! Small groups collaborate to create math word problems based on the fish in their classroom aquarium or on the aquarium itself. After all groups determine the answer for their ownproblem,...
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Common Core Sheets

Unit Fraction Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
A set of worksheets prompts learners to practice solving fraction-based word problems. Each problem involves the division of whole numbers by unit fractions. As they work, mathematicians begin to see how division relates...
Worksheet
Public Schools of North Carolina

Math Stars: A Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 5

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Looking for a way to challenge the problem-solving abilities of your young mathematicians? Then look no further. This collect of newsletter worksheets engages learners with a variety of interesting word problems that cover topics ranging...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Guess and Check

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Teach your class how to guess and check to solve word problems. There are 4 single step word problems for them to solve.
PPT
Curated OER

Problem Solving

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Give kids a few strategies to help them become amazing problem solvers. This presentation is intended to be used over a two-day period and presents several techniques or ways to solve word problems or multiplication problems by...
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K5 Learning

Mixed Practice Word Problems #11

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Reinforce math concepts with a mixed practice instructional activity. Scholars use their knowledge of addition, subtraction, and working with money to solve five word problems. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Real-life Problems, Working with Fractions #2

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Decimals and fractions can be tricky - especially in word problems! Help your fourth and fifth graders solve these word problems, all of which involve real-life application and decimals or fractions. There are separate spaces for writing...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Go Fish

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Help learners discover methods to estimate animal population. They will participate in a simulation of catching and tagging fish in order to estimate the fish population. They scoop and count goldfish crackers, record data, and use...
Worksheet
Mathwire

Seussical Fish

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Wondering what Dr. Seuss and his colorful fish have to offer your young mathematicians? Find out with this simple yet affective word problem worksheet that challenges children to determine how many different combinations...
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Math in English

Grade 5 Fractions Word Problems

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Young mathematicians apply their fractions skills in the real world with this simple word problem worksheet.
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DK Publishing

Using the 5 Times Tables, Part 3

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Could your third graders use some more practice on the five times table? Six word problems guide pupils through the steps to solve multiplication and division problems with multiples of five. Two examples show them exactly how to use the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving 2-3

For Students 2nd - 5th
Using everyday, familiar scenarios, this problem solving worksheet has students read math story problems and determine the operation necessary to solve each. Students determine the necessary information, and utilize either basic...
Assessment
Bowland

Fish Dish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Minimize the time it takes to create a fish dish. Scholars use their knowledge of time to devise an order that accounts for different constraints. Considering jobs that can be done in parallel is essential to solving the problem.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Addition with Regrouping

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this regrouping in addition worksheet, students use the table for the 'Threatened and Endangered Animals' and their numbers to solve the addition problems that utilize regrouping.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Real-Life Problems

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Introduce scholars to addition and subtraction word problems with visual guidance. There are five scenarios here, each with a picture to guide scholars as they solve. An example encourages kids to physically interact with the images,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fish Tanks: Volume and Surface Area

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Given a very realistic challenge, your young geometers design residential fish tanks in rectangular and triangular prism shapes. They compute the volume of water each will hold. They also determine the size of plastic covers for each...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Lines, Variables, Solving for One Variable

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Review basic algebraic rules of addition of integers. Then have the class define a variable and explore methods of solving equations with one variable. They observe solving expressions using inverse operations and simplifying solutions....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fish and Clips

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Youngsters test magnetic strength by measuring the mass of paper clips that they "hook" with a magnet. Your first and second graders should love the hands-on activities associated with this plan. The reproducible materials are quite good...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fish Tale

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Here is a cute problem that requires visualizing two-dimensional shapes within a three-dimensional object, and using properties of triangles and the Pythagorean theorem to solve a real-world problem. There is a small mistake in this...
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Kelly's Kindergarten

June Daily Activities

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is an absolute must-have resource for early elementary teachers! Here you'll find a collection of activities and worksheets for each day of the month of June, with topics ranging from ordering numbers on a calendar or identifying...
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Curated OER

Visualizing Skip Counting by 2

For Students 1st Standards
Drawing pictures to solve math problems is not only a good problem solving strategy, it's also mathematical modeling. First graders read six basic word problems that have them skip count by twos to find the answer. They draw pictures in...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Fishy Problem

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students survey the problems involved in finding a solution to a practical problem using a mathematical process. Students make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of their answers. Students report the results of their...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Ice Fishing is for the Birds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Approach addition with young mathematicians in an engaging way through this penguin-inspired activity. In small groups, scholars think about times they have used addition in their real lives (there are some suggestions given), then watch...
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Curated OER

Fishing Adventures 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young boaters will enjoy writing and solving inequalities, and representing the solution graphically in this task set in the context of renting a boat.