Lcm And Gcf Word Problems 6th Grade

[Paz Warsager]

Ourword problems worksheets are best attempted after a student is familiar with the underlying skill. We include many mixed word problems or word problems with irrelevant data so that students must think about the problem carefully rather than just apply a formulaic solution.

You might be relieved to hear that teaching addition and subtraction within word problems is a BREEZE after having taught Addition and Subtraction to 1000. Students typically get it right away, and as long as they have a solid foundation of adding and subtracting numbers, they usually enjoy this unit. Happy students=happy teacher, am I right?

After the first day, my closing each day is students practicing writing their own word problems. I then pull 3 or 4 of these word problems to use as a warm up the following day. The kids LOVE this because their work is getting honored, and the rest of the kids love it because it is relatable and typically features their names.

The other challenge in this unit is teaching students that comparison problems are subtraction problems. Students struggle to recognize this, and I typically start by showing them a simple problem (with differences under 10), and using manipulatives so they can physically see that when comparing, you are subtracting.

My students LOVE simply making up their own problems and having others solve them as a center. We talk about how the numbers need to be reasonable, and once the expectation is set, the kiddos LOVE being able to do this as a center.

I typically make one anchor chart during this unit featuring examples of the different types of word problems. I also am sure to display the anchor charts from our Addition and Subtraction to 1000 Unit, as students might still need to refer back to old strategies.

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To help struggling students, my colleague Sarah Carr wrote about how some teachers are mixing up the types of math word problems they use and zeroing in on the underlying structure of the problem. The takeaway, according to one teacher, is to get students thinking about what the question is asking.

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Your students have mastered their math facts. They understand basic operations. Now it's time to tackle some word problems! Read on to discover strategies and resources to help teach word problems to 2nd grade learners.

Why is it important to teach word problems? Answer: it's not just because it's a grade level standard! Word problems allow students to demonstrate a full understanding of the math skills and operations they have learned. Word problems also allow students to use logic, critical thinking, exercise a step-by-step approach, and identify essential information. All of these skills listed are not only important math skills, but also important life skills!

In every 2nd grade math word problem, there is an important keyword. This keyword will unlock the answer by telling you what operation must be used to correctly solve the problem. For students to be able to identify the correct operation, they need to recognize and understand the word problem keywords for addition and subtraction.

By using the CUBES strategy, the student is able to break down the word problem into small, manageable parts. This blog post about the CUBES strategy explains everything you need to know about using this strategy with 2nd grade learners. You can download the CUBES math strategy chart FREEBIE here.

A word problem is a math story. Visual learners may benefit from drawing a picture to solve a math word problem. No need to be an artist! Students can draw simple shapes to represent the items in the word problem.

You've found the numbers. You know what operation to use. Now it's time to show that work by writing a number sentence! Solve to find your answer. Need more practice with word problems? Check out the Spiral Math Review Freebie for leveled review!

This got me thinking about the values our math texts promote. Story problems are supposed to be the most humanizing part of math education. Although this is sometimes the case, too often the assumptions inherent in story problems perpetuate consumerism, reinforce racist and sexist stereotypes, and maintain classism and unsustainable approaches to the Earth.

The shopping mall is about as American as baseball and apple pie. Did you know that the United States has more shopping centers than movie theaters? Enclosed malls number more than cities, four-year colleges, or television stations.

A teacher in Tigard, Oregon, challenged her 4th-grade students to change the values of this problem but keep the math concepts. They decided to calculate how much green space was lost in the creation of each of these parking spaces. This reframing shifted the emphasis from a glorification of parking spaces to a commentary on the exploitation and loss of nature.

The relationship between consumerism and middle- or upper-class values is often conveyed through math problems about living spaces. These examples (typically focused on calculating area and/or perimeter) often center on recarpeting, retiling, or repainting rooms, walls, or other surfaces. A typical upper elementary problem is found in Glencoe Pre-Algebra:

Ashley is going to retile a part of a wall in her shower. . . . The area of the square section to be retiled is 36 square feet. If each square tile covers an area of .25 square feet, how many . . . tiles will she need?

Regina wants to cover one wall of her room with wallpaper. The wall is 9 feet high and 15 feet wide. There is a doorway in the wall that is 3 feet wide and 7 feet tall. How many square feet of wallpaper will she need to buy?

Craig is saving to buy a vacation home. He inherits some money from a wealthy uncle, then combines this with the $22,000 he has already saved and doubles the total in a lucky investment. He ends up with $134,000, just enough to buy a cabin on the lake. How much did he inherit?

Other examples involve inheriting precious gems, multiple horses in your corral, and arranging parking for your yacht, each framed as normal experience. Some problems focus on ways to invest money to reap the greatest profit, but none explore where the profit actually comes from or at whose expense.

An orange grower in California hires migrant workers to pick oranges during the season. He has 12 employees, and each can pick 400 oranges per hour. He has discovered that if he adds more workers, the production per worker decreases due to lack of supervision. When x new workers (above the 12) are hired, each worker picks 400 22 oranges per hour.

As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man with seven wives.

Every wife had seven sacks,

Every sack had seven cats,

Every cat had seven kits.

Kits, cats, sacks, wives,

How many were going to St. Ives?

Many word problems focus on leisure-time activities, often those that cost money and have a negative environmental impact. Common examples include problems like this one found by a teacher in New Mexico, from Big Ideas Math:

In order to encourage her students to think critically about this problem, she asked them to either calculate the profit the person renting the jet skis would make and discuss whether that is fair or just, or research what calculations would quantify the environmental impact of jet skis on a nearby lake, Elephant Butte.

Other recreational examples focus on bowling, golf, scuba, carriage rides, pilot lessons, music lessons, dance lessons, snowboard lessons, and martial arts lessons. For most children, these require both disposable income and the time to engage in them, and many have a detrimental and unquestioned impact on the environment.

Textbooks and mathematics tests also often include travel-related problems. These are sometimes framed as generic vacations and sometimes described more specifically: skiing in Switzerland, hiking in Ireland, staying at an underwater hotel. Here is a typical example from Harcourt Math (3rd grade):

Two art students are touring Paris. They each buy a one-day museum pass for $14. Each student also buys a ticket to the Eiffel Tower for $11 and a boat ticket for $3. How much do the two students spend altogether? Explain.

What is portrayed as an affordable day in Paris is, in fact, part of an outing in one of the most expensive cities in the world. There is no mention of the additional expenses involved in this problem (airfare, lodging, meals); the problem is presented as if art students touring Paris is a typical experience. The environmental damage caused by air travel is not mentioned, nor is the pollution caused by the boat ride.

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