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

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Represent and solve multi-digit word problems that are multistep.Solve with fluency one-step and two-step problems involving multiplication and division including interpreting remainders.

Represent and solve word problems that involve rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.

Represent and solve the product of a 1-digit number by a 2-, 3- and 4-digit number as well as the product of two 2-digit numbers using various models including arrays, area models, or equations. Use a variety of strategies including mental math, partial products, and the commutative, associative and distributive properties.

Represent and solve word problems with 1-digit divisors by 2-, 3- and 4-digit dividends using arrays, area models or equations. Use a variety of strategies.

Fractions/Decimals

Represent and solve word problems that involve adding 2 fractions with like denominators. Use objects, pictorial models, number lines and properties of operations.

Represent and solve word problems that involve subtracting 2 fractions with unlike denominators. Use objects, pictorial models, number lines and properties of operations.

Represent and solve word problems that involve adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Use objects, pictorial models, number lines and properties of operations.

Represent and solve word problems that involve multiplying a fraction by a whole number. Use objects, pictorial models, number lines and properties of operations.

Represent and solve word problems where students have to reason about and compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators and represent the comparison using the symbols < , > or =.

Represent and solve word problems where students have to work with equivalent fractions.

Represent and solve word problems involving comparing and ordering decimals using concrete and visual models to the hundredths.

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