Organizer
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Draw a Diagram - Problem Solving 11.3

For Students 4th - 5th
In this drawing a diagram to solve word problems worksheet, students practice the understand, plan, solve, and check technique for solving word problems by drawing diagrams. Students solve two word problems.
Lesson Plan
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Illustrative Mathematics

Listing Fractions in Increasing Size

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Increase the depth of your class's fractional number sense with this number-ordering activity. Given four fractions, each with different numerators and denominators, young learners are asked to place them in order from smallest to...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Solving Percent Problems

For Teachers 6th Standards
Don't discount how much your pupils understand percents! The 27th lesson in a series of 29 presents a problem to find the cost of a discounted outfit. Small groups determine either the original price or the discount received given the...
Worksheet
Scholastic

Problem-Soving Strategies, Practice 1: Sample

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A variety of word problems help your learners examine the ways that they find solutions. Each question provides opportunities to add, subtract, and multiply time, measurements, and money.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Solve a Simpler Problem: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, learners use the understand, plan, solve, and look back strategy to help them locate and solve the simpler problems within the two word problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students use the working backward strategy to solve 2 math problems step by step.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning

For Students 6th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, 6th graders solve a story problem using the strategies of understand, plan, solve, and look back.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Write a Number Sentence: Problem Solving

For Students 4th - 5th
In this number sentence instructional activity, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them write number sentences to solve the word problem.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math patterns worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them find patterns to solve word problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Make a Table

For Students 6th
For this making a table worksheet, 6th graders use the problem solving strategies of understand, plan, solve, and look plan, to solve a word problem.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Draw a Picture

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this problem solving strategies learning exercise, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems by drawing picture to help them.
Worksheet
Math Stars

Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...
Assessment
Charleston School District

Review Unit 5: Equations

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
It's time for them to show you what they've learned! The review provides a sampling of the different concepts learned throughout the eight-part series. Learners solve equations by combining like terms, applying the distributive property,...
Interactive
Curated OER

We Can Solve This Problem

For Students 5th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, 5th graders answer ten multiple choice questions about the steps of solving a word problem. This is an interactive worksheet.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Guess and Check practice 21.5

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving worksheet, students observe a Lunch Menu table to use and apply the guess and check strategy to answer consumer problems. Students solve four problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, students write a series of equations using a scenario given at the top of the page. A reference web site is given for additional activities. 
Organizer
Curated OER

Working Backwards as a Problem-Solving Strategy

For Students 3rd
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, 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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this logical reasoning worksheet, students utilize the problem-solving strategy of logical reasoning to answer 2 short answer mathematical questions.
Interactive
Curated OER

Problem Solving Strategies Post Test

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students answer a set of 10 multiple choice questions. Students may click on a link to see correct answers.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Too Much or Too Little Information

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategy activity, learners use a given table to solve 3 word problems. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Evaluating in Math

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Help kids understand problem-solving strategies by focusing on academic language in a reading comprehension activity. After reading paragraphs about the words solve and evaluate, learners answer five reading comprehension...
Handout
Charleston School District

Equations of Linear Functions

For Students 8th Standards
Teaching linear function relationships using contextual information is beneficial to pupils' understanding. The lesson uses problem solving to build linear functions given different information for each problem. This is the second...
Assessment
Charleston School District

Review Unit 4: Linear Functions

For Students 8th Standards
It's time to show what they know! An assessment review concludes a five-part series about linear functions. It covers all concepts featured throughout the unit, including linear equations, graphs, tables, and problem solving.