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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
A math word problem is a question posed in a short scenario format. Although numbers are used and computations are required, math word problems also need to be understood as a story.
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
A math word problem does not give the reader the operation
(+, -, ×, ÷) required to solve it. Therefore, the solver must figure out what is happening in the scenario to figure out the operations.
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
One of the hardest parts of solving a math word problem is figuring out the operation (+, -, ×, ÷).
And sometimes there is more than one operation that needs to be done to solve it.
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
Why is figuring out the operation of a math word problem so hard?
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
If you are a struggling reader, reading the word problem may be really hard. Plus sometimes there is information that is not important. It may even feel impossible. But don’t worry, there are ways to solve the problem without being a great reader!
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
Math word problems use words, or vocabulary, that don’t appear in other places; they are specific to math word problems. So for many of us, we have to learn these new words just to solve them! Oh man!
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
Even after you decide what
operation (+, -, ×, ÷) to use to solve a math word problem, sometimes you can’t remember how to do the actual computation! Adding and subtracting might be easy to remember, but multiplying and dividing have lots of steps!
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
One way to start preparing to solve math word problems is to take away numbers and just think about what is happening. We will draw a picture for each scenario:
Robin went to the park. | Chloe’s class went to an amusement park. | Sharod made cookies. |
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Explain what it means to think and what logic means. Sort ideas into parts. Identify when a sentence and paragraph has a part that asks a question even if it is not implicitly shown by using a question mark. |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
Now let’s add some more elements to our pictures:
Robin went to the park. There were different color dogs running around. | Chloe’s class went to an amusement park. The class went on the roller coaster. | Sharod made cookies. He shared them with his friends. |
DO NOT feel obligated to do anything else with these scenarios besides a picture. At most, see what questions kids come up with. Do not do any math! Possible Questions: How many dogs total? How many more white dogs than black? How many cars need to be on the coaster for the whole class ro ride together? How many cookies does each person get? |
SWBAT use the four operations IOT solve two-step word problems.
Let’s try that once more
with a little more details:
Robin went to the park. There were 3 black dogs and 7 white dogs running around. | Chloe and her 14 classmates went to an amusement park to ride the roller coaster. Each car on the coaster holds 4 people. | Sharod made 20 cookies. He gave them to his 4 friends. |