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

Fractions

Represent and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction with unlike denominators using a variety of strategies, models and properties of operations.

Represent and solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers.

Represent and solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, and fractions and whole numbers.*Teks

: Represent and solve

multiplication of a whole number and a fraction that refers to the same whole using objects and pictorial models, including area models.

Represent and solve word problems that involve dividing unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions using concrete, pictorial and abstract models.

Create word problems that involve the division of a whole number by a unit fraction using concrete, pictorial and abstract models.

Represent and solve word problems involving like, unlike, mixed and improper fractions.

Measurement

Represent and solve one-step and two-step word problems that involve converting measurement units within either the customary or metric system.Kilometers and metersMeters and centimetersKilograms and gramsLiters and milliliters

Represent and solve word problems about volume. Apply the formulas V

=

l × w × h and

V

=

b × h for rectangular prisms to find volumes

of right rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving r

eal-world

and mathematical problems.

*Teks

: Represent and solve problems

related to perimeter and/or area.

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