Saturday, April 14, 2012

Word Problems

The hardest part of a word problem is deciding what operation to use when solving it. To help students, we did an activity where they had to sort the word problems above into a subtraction or addition column with a partner. We have learned some tricks to help us.

A big addition clue is "How many in all?"
A big subtraction clue is "How many/much more?"

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