Test Strategies
The Thing You Do
Vocabulary
Magic Word Meaning
Area or Perimeter
100

True or False? I should do all of the problems that I do not know first. 

False, you should do the problems you know first.

100

When you put two things together, and they are not in equal groups.

Addition

100

Factor

Answer to a multiplication problem

100
Altogether

Addition

100

The measurement of the fence around a graden.

Perimeter

200

If I run out of time I need to make an _______   _______ to finish.

Educated guess.

200

When you lose something or give it away you do this.

Subtract

200

Elapsed time

How much time passes.

200

Difference

Subtract

200

The measurement of tiles in the classroom

Area

300

Ruling out __________ answer choices is a good strategy. 

Silly

300

If you have equal groups and you are putting them together, you do this.

Multiply

300

Partition

Breaking something apart 

300

Split

Divide

300

The measurement of a frame of a picture.

Perimeter

400

Make a _____________  chart to help you solve times problems that you do not know

Multiplication

400

If you split a pizza into equal parts you can make this to determine how much of the pizza was eaten, by whom. 

Fractions

400

Operation

What you do to solve a problem

400

Half

Divide by 2

400

The measurement of a table top.

Area

500
Use a __________ to identify magic words, the question, and numbers in a word problem. 

highlighter

500

To determine how much longer until we go home, you use this strategy.

SEEt

500

Quotient

Answer to a division problem

500

Times as much

Multiply

500

The measurement of bulletin board paper.

Area.

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