Given a certain amount of boys and certain amount of girls, how many children are there total in the class? Assess learners' ability to use addition and subtraction strategies when solving word problems.

Concepts

addition, subtraction, addition word problems, subtraction word problems, word problems

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Give as an assessment
• Extend the assignment with the second variation of the worksheet

Classroom Considerations

• Best to have learners write the equations for each problem in order to visualize what the question is asking

Pros

• Combines addition and subtraction strategies into word problems
• Comes with an answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

1.OA.A.1