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Real-life Problems, Money, and Weight
Solve five word problems involving money and weight. After studying the example at the top, which demonstrates how to write out the equation in a word problem, fourth graders work on adding large numbers in money and measurement. Here is...
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Real-life Problems, Working with Fractions #2
Decimals and fractions can be tricky - especially in word problems! Help your fourth and fifth graders solve these word problems, all of which involve real-life application and decimals or fractions. There are separate spaces for writing...
Curated OER
Everyday Problems with Decimals
Review word problems and decimals with a worksheet that features everyday problems for your students to solve. Six problems provide space for both work and the solution, reinforcing the importance of showing one's work in word problems....
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Real-Life Problems: Measures
Do your fifth graders have trouble writing out their work for word problems? Use this instructional activity about measurements and the four equations, which provides separate spaces to write the equations and the answers. A nice way to...
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Real-Life Problems: Time
Combine word problems, telling time, and the four operations. Six problems prompt third graders to write out and solve word problems involving time and timing. Can they finish all six on their own or with a partner?
Scholastic
Sums & Differences
Word problem solving and inter-galaxy football combine to offer a great instructional activity for practicing adding and subtracting whole numbers!
Curated OER
Problems Involving Time
Put your class's time-telling skills to the test with word problems. Two examples show fourth graders how to write out the necessary equations, and how to solve for the answers. One of the problems requires two answers.
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Word Problems Using Six Dinner Sid
Sid the cat can eat six dinners in one day! After reading the short story Six Dinner Sid, learners respond to two multiplication word problems. First, they consider how many dinners Sid would eat in one week at his current rate....
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Division Word Problems
Learners show their work in spaces provided and solve a set of four problems. Answers are included on page 2. A good worksheet!
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Egyptian Math Problems
Count like an Egyptian! Put an ancient twist on everyday problem solving by providing kids a chance to solve ancient Egyptian math problems. There are 39 different questions that require learners to solve addition and subtraction...
K5 Learning
Mixed Practice with Fractions
Help young mathematicians see how fractions are used every day in the world around them with a series of problem solving exercises. Offering eight different word problems, this worksheet challenges children to apply their...
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Complement Problems
Two worksheets are here with 17 complement math word problems. These are not easy problems. Percentages, fractions, metric system problems, and logic problems are all present. Many of the problems require two or three steps to solve....
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Write Your Own Word Problem!
These addition word problems are written out in boxes that lend themselves to laminating and cutting out for a math station. There are 8 scenarios in all, each with an image and prompting learners to use the single-digit information to...
DK Publishing
Real-life Problems, Working with Fractions
Test your fifth graders' math skills with five word problems involving fractions. After studying two examples at the top of the page, pupils multiply fractions by whole numbers to solve each word problem. The worksheet provides two...
Curated OER
Addition Word Problems #2
Expose scholars to the ways addition is constantly used through 15 word problems. Many of these have more than two addends, and several involve money math and adding numbers with decimals to the hundredths place. Learners also must use...
Math Stars
Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 8
You've just hit the jackpot of integrating math problems and riddles with this jumbo-sized resource! Written as a newsletter, scroll through 35 pages of puzzles and quality problems to engage and encourage your learners to inquire...
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Using Proportions to Solve Problems
Skittles and math? Pupils will work as a class to determine how many orange Skittles are in a large bag by using proportions. They will problem solve, estimate, and share their thinking. Then, they will each receive a small bag of...
Curated OER
Addition Word Problems 2, Version 3
In this addition worksheet, students solve 6 story problems in which addition will be used to calculate the answer. There is room for students to show their work.
BW Walch
Creating Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Just when a young mathematician starts to feel comfortable turning word problems into linear equations, shake things up and throw inequalities in the mix. This excellent, instructive presentation takes the steps for solving an...
Teachnology
Inequality Word Problems
Three quick, real-life, inequality word problems greet your learners with a quick activity of writing and solving inequalities. This is a wonderfully simple inequality word problem activity.
Curated OER
Word Problem Solving Strategies
In this word problem solving strategies worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 11 different problems and questions related to identifying word problems. First, they explain what the problem is telling them to do and what is important....
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Math Word Problems
For this problem solving worksheet, students solve six word problems by adding or subtracting money amounts. This is a multiple choice worksheet.
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Halloween Word Problems
Young mathematicians are put to the test in a worksheet that requires them to help another school plan a Halloween party. By reading word problems, learners decide whether to multiply or divide in order to solve.
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One-Variable Inequality Word Problems
Here is a great set of eight scenarios that require the writing of a one-variable inequality and then solving to find the solution. This inequality word problem activity is then followed by the solutions to each of the eight problems.