Grades 3-5 Math Problem Solving in Action_ Getting Students to Love Word Problems

140 ◆ Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles engage in Depth of Knowledge (DOK) (Webb, 1999) level 3 and 4 type activities, mea ...

Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles ◆ 141 Planner/Strategist This person is in charge of planning the problem out loud with ...

142 ◆ Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles For each rotation, the students are instructed to use a different color. The stude ...

Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles ◆ 143 Tell Me a Story This storytelling structure allows students to make up word proble ...

144 ◆ Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles This can be so powerful to have students do. They should get a chance to practice ...

Math Literature Problem-Solving Circles ◆ 145 Summary Collaborative problem solving should be a frequent activity in the class- ...

146 ◆ 10 Schoolwide Efforts The Great 100 Word Problem Challenge Every year, thousands of schools do some version of the 100 Boo ...

Schoolwide Efforts ◆ 147 grade-level problem types. The fifth level emphasizes two-step problems and the sixth level emphasizes ...

Figure 10.4 Fourth Grade Example: Level 3 Read the problem below and make a picture in your head. Sue went skating at 4:15. She ...

Figure 10.7 Fourth Grade Example: Level 6 Read the problem below and make a picture in your head. Mike had 4 boxes of marbles. E ...

150 ◆ Schoolwide Efforts Figure 10.10 Third Grade Example: Level 9 John said he ate ½ of a candy bar. Mike said he ate ¼ of a ca ...

◆ 151 We must bring a different type of intentionality and focus to assessing students’ word problem skills and strategies, if w ...

152 ◆ Assessment Figure 11. 1 Draw and Solve. There were 25 bugs on the rock. Then, some more crawled on to the rock. Now there ...

Assessment ◆ 153 Figure 11.3 Use the pictures to solve. There were 10 horses in the grass. They were lined up in groups of 2. H ...

154 ◆ Assessment The next question in Figure 11.6 gives another example of using a designated model (the number line). Figure 11 ...

Assessment ◆ 155 is incomplete. Teachers will contact me and say, “Nicki, the kids could answer the question but they couldn’t d ...

Class:________ Teacher:________ Date:________ Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number & Operations—Fractions & ...

Assessment ◆ 157 Mayer, 1987; Cummins et al., 1988). Specifically, many of the errors in comprehension have to do with language. ...

158 ◆ Assessment Which method do you use to get your answer? (This checks for Transformation Errors.) (Record a T if there are ...

Assessment ◆ 159 trying to find out? Many students have trouble putting into words what the actual numbers mean in the problem. ...