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Story Problem Writing
Students write story problems which can only be solved with the application of multiplication facts. They write an extra fact that isn't needed to solve. When their partners do the problems, they must cross out the fact that they do need.
Perfection Learning
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words/Base Words
Get your class on track with their affixes by covering prefixes, suffixes, and root words in depth. This short three-lesson unit includes vocabulary lists to study, detailed plan procedures, and some accompanying worksheets.
Illustrative Mathematics
Party Favors
Pia is putting stickers into party bags. She starts by putting 10 stickers in each bag, and over the course of a week she adds several bundles of ten stickers to each bag, as well as making more bags. Second graders must find the number...
Curriculum Corner
Learning Fun with Hershey Bars
Compiled of 18 task cards and five worksheets, young mathemmaticians practice solving fraction word problems and other fraction-based activities with a Hershey Bar. The packet comes with sheets to record and keep track of all of the task...
Math Stars
Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7
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...
Curated OER
Word Problems
In this math worksheet, 4th graders are presented word problems that involve the division of values by a single-digit divisor and resulting in a single-digit quotient. Students focus on memorizing all of the multiplication and division...
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Problem Solving: Find an Average
In this finding the average word problem instructional activity, students problem solve and explain why the average is reasonable or not reasonable. Students solve six problems.
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Divide 3 and 4 Digit Numbers
In this division worksheet, learners solve 6 word problems in which they divide three and four digit numbers. They describe where the mistake is in one of the problems.
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Problem-Solving Decisions: Reasonable Answers 13.6
In this solving word problems worksheet, students read a problem and write word answers for each step to find the solutions and then apply these steps to solve a word problem to determine if the answer is reasonable.
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Word Problems
In these math worksheets, 3rd graders are presented word problems using simple addition. Students complete six word problems with labels for answers on each page.
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The Train and Bee Problem
In this problem solving activity, students solve 1 word problem about two trains and a bee traveling towards each other. Students determine the distance traveled by the bee given velocity of the trains and bee, and the distance...
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The 3x3x3 Problem
In this algebra learning exercise, learners rewrite word problems using algebraic expressions. They use a 3x3 grid to help decipher the missing word. There are 11 puzzles to be solved with an answer key.
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Target G
Making money and saving money turn into high interest topics for sixth graders. Grade 6 Claim 1 Item Slide Shows use these topics in a presentation with math practice problems. The questions require applying knowledge of algebraic...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We Can Work It Out: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)
Listen, look, speak, and move are the routine steps of the English language development lessons found in a We Can Work It Out themed unit. Language proficiency is reinforced through picture cards, poems, and grand discussions about...
Curated OER
Flower Vases
Which vase holds more water: a cylinder, sphere, or cone? Figure out which should be used for your sister's birthday bouquet with this practical word problem.
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Problem Solving: Make an Organized List
In this problem solving strategies instructional activity, students solve 6 word problems where they must make an organized list in order to solve each problem. Students order and round numbers to solve some problems.
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Math Lesson Study Plan
Second graders find missing addends by solving math word problems. In this missing addend lesson, 2nd graders work in a whole group setting to find the missing addends in word problems before using the strategies to work independently....
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Write a Number Sentence: Problem Solving
In this number sentence worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them write number sentences to solve the word problem.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward
In this problem solving strategies activity, students use the working backward strategy to solve 2 math problems step by step.
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Math Cross--Puzzle #11
In this time activity, students fill in a crossword puzzle as they solve twenty-eight addition, subtraction and multiplication problems involving days, weeks and hours.
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Mathematics Problem
Students try to see how many different ways they can spell out the word MATHEMATICS. In this puzzle worksheet, students use the properties of Pascal's Triangle and try to spell out the word Mathematics. There is a solution key with this...
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Math Cross--Puzzle #1
In this addition, subtraction and multiplication worksheet, students complete a math crossword puzzle as they complete twenty-eight addition, subtraction and multiplication problems.
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Math Cross--Puzzle #3
For this associative property worksheet, students complete a math crossword puzzle as they solve twenty-eight addition, subtraction and/or multiplication problems.
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Math Cross--Puzzle #5
In this inches and feet learning exercise, students fill in a math crossword puzzle as they solve twenty-eight addition, subtraction and multiplication problems involving inches and feet.