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Organizer
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Problem Solving Strategy: Make a Model

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer to help solve a problem. Students complete 4 sections: understand, plan, solve and look back. Houghton Mifflin text referenced.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math patterns worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them find patterns to solve word problems.
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Worksheet
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies learning exercise, students use logical reasoning to understand, plan, solve, and look back at a word problem.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Make a Table

For Students 6th
In this making a table worksheet, 6th graders use the problem solving strategies of understand, plan, solve, and look plan, to solve a word problem.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Work Backward

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this working backwards worksheet, students learn to use the problem solving strategy of working backward to solve the six math word problems.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Make an Organized List

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this problem solving strategies worksheet, learners solve 6 word problems where they must make an organized list in order to solve each problem. Students order and round numbers to solve some problems.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Draw a Picture

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this problem solving strategies instructional activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems by drawing picture to help them.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving Application: Interpret Remainders: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
In this remainders in division worksheet, students use the problems solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them interpret the remainders in the two division problems.
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Worksheet
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Problem-Solving Application 18.7

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving learning exercise, students read a problem about marbles in a box and analyze the diagram. Students fill out 4 essay questions that take them through the problem solving process before answering the question. No...
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Worksheet
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Problem-Solving Application: Use a Graph

For Students 6th
In this problem solving worksheet, 6th graders use the problem solving steps of understand, plan, solve and look back to answer a graphing question.
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Worksheet
Math Stars

Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...
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Lesson Plan
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Building a Paper Bridge: an Introduction To Problem Solving

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore problem solving strategies to build a paper bridge with a partner. As a class they discuss a variety of techniques to solve a simple problem, then in pairs construct the longest non-supported single span bridge...
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Lesson Plan
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page

For Teachers 4th
The use of box scores from baseball games is the foundation of this math lesson. Organize your class into groups of four, and give identical box scores from a baseball game that was just played. Have them create word problems from the...
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PPT
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Subtraction Word Problems

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Budding mathematicians will work through a few word problems using the presented six-step comprehension strategy. They determine what the question is asking, which operation to use, and then solve the problem as a class.
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Lesson Plan
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Life is Full of Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils use the problem solving strategy of guess and check to investigate math word problems. They determine which problem solving strategy or strategies would work best in problem situations.
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Lesson Plan
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Be a Problem Solving Star

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a math problem and discuss what it is and what they should do with it. They are introduced to the STAR steps for problem solving and discuss how to use it to answer math problems as well as incorporating some of the...
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

STAR Deputies, Unite!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
STAR deputies unite! Scholars gather in small groups to solve problems using the STAR method. Pupils read a card that describes a situation that requires problem-solving. They role-play the scenario in front of their peers.
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Opportunity Knocks, But It Costs, Too!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice six steps to effective problem solving. Working with the school counselor, class members are presented with a scenario that requires them to make a decision. Individuals then write a reflection in which they...
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Assessment
Charleston School District

Review Unit 5: Equations

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
It's time for them to show you what they've learned! The review provides a sampling of the different concepts learned throughout the eight-part series. Learners solve equations by combining like terms, applying the distributive property,...
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Lesson Plan
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Apple Logic and Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine apple production in the United States. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use problem solving strategies introduced to solve math problems associated with apple production in the United States. Student collect...
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Lesson Plan
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Model and Solve Algebraic Equations

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Examine multiple ways to solve algebraic equations. Pupils will generate a problem solving strategy that addresses the prompt given by the teacher. They will then share their problem solving strategy with the class. Graphic organizers,...
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Interactive
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We Can Solve This Problem

For Students 5th
In this problem solving strategy activity, 5th graders answer ten multiple choice questions about the steps of solving a word problem. This is an interactive activity.
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Guess and Check practice 21.5

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving worksheet, students observe a Lunch Menu table to use and apply the guess and check strategy to answer consumer problems. Students solve four problems.
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Lesson Plan
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Problem-Solving Math 2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers view the video "Problem-Soving: Math Episode 2." They discuss the strategies featured in the video. They brainstorm some school-based problems such as, trash on the playground, noise in the hallways, limited handicapped...

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