Five Days of Mail?

United States Postal Service thinks about cutting service and Hooda Math has written three word problems to challenge your students. They are for primary, intermediate, and middle school students. The problems are subtracting whole numbers, subtracting decimals, and finding percentage increase.

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Division Word Problems – Strategy: Guess and Check

This is very similar to the other Lessons I have posted. To make it Guess and Check have the students start by guessing how many pizzas per classroom and then making circles for classroom and filling in the dots and counting the dots to adjust their guesses. I’ll post a more detailed lesson plan when [...]

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Multiplication Word Problems – Strategy: Using Tables

Lesson Plan for Multiplication Word Problems – Strategy: Using Tables
A. Class Discussion with Overhead Projector. – Do Problem 1 together.

Draw 5 circles and the 7 dots inside. -Students are to Count up dots.
Write out addition equation. 7+7+7+7+7 = 5
Draw a table with labels: “Bags of Rice” on left, and “Dollars” on right.
Multiplication Equation. 5 * [...]

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Multiplication Word Problems – Strategy: Drawing

Here is the first worksheet I made to teach students the Drawing strategy.
I did the first problem on the overhead with the students.
A. 1. I started with what do you draw first? the nests. then what do you draw second? the eggs in the nests.
2. Then we counted the eggs to get the answer. 21 [...]

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