K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Making Apple Ten Packs [Pdf]
Students are given a word problem, red and yellow counters, and a tenframe to solve the problem.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nursery Rhyme Word Problems
In this lesson plan students will create basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems using common nursery rhymes. Students will distinguish the key elements of word problems and incorporate those elements into...
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Alex: Little Red Riding Hood's Journey to Grandma's
The students will listen to the story of Little Red Riding Hood and work subtraction word problems connected to the story. The problems are related to distance traveled. They will work cooperatively with partners and share subtraction...
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Alex: What's Your Question? Multiplication Word Problems
Students will explore multiplication and word problems. They will work cooperatively to examine a story scenario, list possible questions to develop a completed word problem and solve it using a variety of strategies. The students will...
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Better Lesson: Put It All Together
A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.
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Better Lesson: Cheerful Shoppers
Second graders love to shop! Students will use their own shopping list to compose a word problem using addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, in order to help them better understand how to problem solve.
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Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Within 1000 Word Problems
Practice one-step addition and subtraction word problems with numbers less than 1000.
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Khan Academy: 2 Step Estimation Word Problems
Use estimation to solve two-step word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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Khan Academy: Addition Word Problems Within 10
Practice solving word problems by adding small numbers (numbers 10 or less).
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Khan Academy: Addition and Subtraction Word Problems 2
Practice solving more challenging word problems with addition and subtraction. Numbers used are 20 or less.
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Khan Academy: Addition and Subtraction Word Problems 1
Practice adding and subtracting to solve word problems. Numbers used are 20 or less.
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Better Lesson: Deciphering Word Problems to Write Equations
Knowing the language of word problems helps students write equations which is a skill used in Algebra.
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Better Lesson: Defend Your Ideas With a Journal
Third graders practice in representing their mathematical thinking in order to share it with others and assess their own understanding. This lesson engages them to work out a problem from a story read to them in more than one way.
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Better Lesson: What Is the Action of the Problem?
First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory activity. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
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Better Lesson: The Recipe for a Great Word Problem
The big idea of this lesson is to have students write their own word problems to help them have a better understanding of mathematical operations, as they relate to real world scenarios.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Math Word Problems
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your word problem skills. Sheets focus on addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, and other math topics.
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Siyavula: Textbooks: Mathematics Grade 11: Probability: Tree Diagrams
Learn what a tree diagram is and how to solve a word problem while using one. View the solution steps and examples for three different problems. Then practice by solving four word problems on your own and checking the answers to see how...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
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Pbs Learning Media: Modeling a Fraction Multiplication Word Problem
This video [2:31] illustrates a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions that requires students to find an unknown product based on a comparison of two quantities. One of the world's largest insects, the Goliath beetle, is...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Geometry and Measurement Word Problems
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in geometry and measurement word problems.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay
In this lesson, young scholars will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan
In this lesson, young scholars will create and solve a word problem related to adding and subtracting within 1,000, develop a script for a short scene using dialect, and perform it using the elements of performance, specifically acting,...
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Pbs: Modeling Fraction Multiplication With Equal Groups
This video presents a visual model for solving a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions. The problem asks students to use the amount of bamboo that a panda eats in an hour to determine how much he eats in a quarter of an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Praxis Core Math: Algebraic Word Problems Lesson
A review of simple word problems that just involve basic arithmetic operations and a single variable. Includes examples and practice questions.