Spooky Strategies for Solving Word Problems

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Spooky Strategies for Solving Word Problems
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In your group
In your group

• Discuss the difficulties you have when you try
  to solve word problems?
• One person from each group list those
  difficulties on the board.

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Operation Words
?These words can be helpful for you to determine
what operation will be used in a
problem. ?However, you still need to understand
what the word problem means. ?The operation
words sometimes can be mistaken for the wrong
operation.
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ExampleToby buys two books at Top?s Bookstore.
They cost 12.85 together. He pays with a 20
bill. How much change does Toby receive?Wrong
solution 12.85 20 32.85Correct solution
20 -12.85 7.15
Watch out for misreading the wrong key word!
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Different Math Strategies ?Make a List?Use
Object/Act It Out?Make a Drawing/Use a
Model?Make a Table?Make a Graph?Guess and
Check/Experiment?Work Backward?Use a
Pattern?Use Logic
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Make a Model Not the only method to solve word
problems, but it can be used to solve most word
problems (about 80)
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A picture (or a diagram) is worth a thousand
words.
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The 8 Step Process1.Read the entire problem.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether?
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2.Decide who is involved in the problem.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicia Bobby
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3.Decide what is involved in the problem.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicias
money Bobbys money
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4.Draw unit bars of equal length.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicias
money Bobbys money
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5.Read each sentence, one at a time.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicias money
Bobbys money
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6.Put the question mark in place.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicias money
Bobbys money
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7.Work the computation to the side or underneath.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicias money
Bobbys money
10 10 20 20 6 26 OR 10 6
16 16 10 26 10
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8.Answer the question in a complete sentence.
Alicia had 6 more than Bobby. If Bobby had 10,
how much did they have altogether? Alicia and
Bobby had 26 altogether.
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Nowits your turn