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Finding Solutions by Working Backwards
In this math worksheet, students learn to solve word problems by working backwards. Students read the 20 word problems and solve them, choosing the best answer from 4 choices. There are helpful hints on the page to clue students to work...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward: Homework
In this working backwards worksheet, learners review the understand, plan, solve, and look back problem solving strategy to help them work backwards and solve the word problems.
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Number Word Problems: Working Backwards
In this math worksheet, students learn to solve word problems by working backwards and turning the operations into their inverse partners. There are 25 questions.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward
In this working backwards worksheet, students learn to use the problem solving strategy of working backward to solve the six math word problems.
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Problem Solving Strategy: Work Backward: Problem Solving
For this working backwards worksheet, students read the word problem and then complete the understand, plan, solve, and look back steps to solve the problem. Students work backwards to solve the problem.
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The Answer Is Math Task Cards
Scholars work backwards to solve word problems with a practice page that gives an answer and asks, What is the problem?
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Working Backwards
Learners explore the concept that to solve some problems, they may need to undo the key actions in the problem. This strategy is called working backwards asking the appropriate questions.
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Work Backward
In this math word problems worksheet, learners work backwards to find the answers to problems with one digit numbers. Students complete 6 problems.
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Problem Solving Strategy: Work Backward
In this problem solving challenge activity, students work backward to solve a set of 5 word problems. Answers are included on page 2.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward
In this problem solving learning exercise, 4th graders solve each of 6 word problems by working backwards. They use the strategy while working with money and decimals.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, learners use the working backward strategy to solve 2 math problems step by step.
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Working Backwards
Sixth graders make up their own math problems. There is only one restriction. That is, the answer has to be the one you are going to give them in a sealed envelope. The problems that they make up can be anything they like. Let Students...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Work Backward
In this problem solving activity, students solve two word problems that require them to work backward to find the original number. There is an example provided.
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Sunscreen Dot to Dot - Work Backwards From 21
In this number recognition and health learning exercise, students connect the dots to find a bottle of sunscreen. They start at the number 21 and work backwards to 1 as they form the bottle.
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Problem Solving Strategies
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different word problems that include working backwards. First, they determine various numbers by following the instructions and then working backwards to check....
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Word Clue and All About Me Problem Solving
Fifth graders practice solving word problems using highlighted strategies. In this word problem lesson, 5th graders brainstorm and use words as clues that indicate the math operations that will be used to solve problems. They use the...
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Brain Booster: Subtraction Strategy- Working Backward
In this daily math problem worksheet, students complete three activities that help them use subtraction and work backwards. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or hundred boards for...
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Factoring Trinomials Using Tiles
What's the opposite of multiplying binomials? Learners apply their previous knowledge of multiplying binomials using algebra tiles to factor trinomials. The lesson introduces factoring as a process that uses algebra tiles to...
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Algebra Tic-Tac-Times
Use the strategy of working backwards to practice factoring polynomials and multiplying binomials in a game format. Play, and work to find which products combined with the available factors will result in the placement of four tokens in...
Illustrative Mathematics
Shirt Sale
Everyone loves a good deal, and your mathematician's job is to calculate the original price when given the discount. A different type of problem than the traditional "find the percent change" has your learners working backwards to...
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Working Backwards as a Problem-Solving Strategy
For this problem solving strategy worksheet, 3rd graders roll a dice three times and record the number in the hundreds, tens and ones place on the chart, then solve an addition and subtraction problem with that number.
Common Core Sheets
Finding Side Length (Given Area)
Area is the amount of space that takes up the inside of a figure. To find the area of a rectangle, one must multiply the length by the width. Here, third graders are challenged to find the missing side length, given the area.
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Finding Side Length (Given Perimeter)
Perimeter is the total distance around an object. One can find the perimeter of a rectangle or square by adding all four side lengths together. These worksheets require third graders to find the missing side length, given the perimeter...
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Working Backwards
In this calculations instructional activity, students read the word problems and word backwards from the given numbers to determine the first number for each problem.