Strategies
What is a good strategy to use when solving a problem like this... Ember and Keisha are 34 years old when there two ages are put together.But one is 7 years older than the other. What are there individual ages?
Guess and check.
What arithmetic would you use for this problem? Brooklyn had 17 bananas, she gave 3 to Riley. How many does she have left?
Subtraction
Solve this problem below... Mackenzie had 47 marbles, she let Callahan have 17. How many does she have now?
Mackenzie has 30 marbles left.
What is a good strategy to use for this problem. Paris was flying into Fort Lauderdale from Inagua to visit Saleena. It took her 2 hours to get to New Providence and 1 hour to get to Fort Lauderdale from New Providence. If she left at 1:00 from Inagua what time did she arrive in Fort Lauderdale?
Working Backwards
what is the arithmetic you would use for this problem? Max had 8 laundry baskets. He went to the store and bought 4 more. How many does Max have now?
Addition
Solve the problem below.. Daisy and Bruin were eating chicken. They each had 21 pieces in all. Harry came along and wanted an even amount. How many pieces will each one get?
Harry, Bruin and Daisy will all get 7 pieces of chicken.
What is a good method to use when solving a problem like this... Dillion and Ben are going to the Opera. Dillion said he is going to pay. He has been getting an allowance for nine weeks and has been getting $5.00 a week. Dillion started with 18 dollars. How much money does he have?
Make a table
What arithmetic would you use for this word problem? Aiden had 18 pieces of candy. Emma had 3 times as much as he had. How many pieces does Emma have?
Multipilcation
solve the problem below... There were 18 students in Ms. Smith's class. They were running a race, and each student ran 30ft total. How many feet did they run in all?
Ms. Smith's class ran 540ft in all.
What is a good method to use when solving a problem like this... Jenna had 21 packs of Skittles, she gave 7 to Shelby for her birthday. How many does she have left?
Drawing/illustrations
What arithmetic would you use for this word problem? Ms. Smith had 40 cookies. She ate 5 a day, how many days has she had the cookies?
Division
Solve the problem below... Andrew ran a total of 5 miles in one hour. After 15 minutes he had ran 1.1 miles, at 30 min he had run 2.4 miles, at 45 min he had run 3.9 miles, how much did he run the last 15 minutes?
Andrew ran 1.1 miles the last fifteen minutes he had been running.
What is a good method to use for this word problem... Ms. Smith's advisory was going to have a boys versus girls race. There were thirty lines on the field. Each student had to run to each line and back. Each line was 15ft apart. How much does each student have to run?
Visualizations/Hands On
Solve this problem... Ms. Smith's class had 17 calculators. Ms. Smith broke 5 and then bought 15 more. How many calculators does Ms. Smith's class now have?
Ms. Smith has 27 calculators in his room.
Solve the problem below... Grace had 17 hats, she gave 4 away, then bought 9 more, then lost three, and bought four more, then Grace sold three. How many does she now have?
Grace has 20 hats left.