Word Problems

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Read the problem. Eek out and... Eliminate the bits that are not important. Grab the keywords Add, take-away, multiply or divide? Numbers to solve it. Make sense?

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R Read the problem.

Teagan had 15 books on her bookshelf. Teagans dog, Buster, came in and slobbered all over four of them.
How many books did Teagan have left that were not slobbered on?

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E Eek out and...

Eliminate the bits that are not important.

Teagan had 15 books on her bookshelf. Teagans dog, Buster, came in and slobbered all over four of them.
How many books did Teagan have left that were not slobbered on?

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G Grab the keywords

Teagan had 15 books on her bookshelf. Teagans dog, Buster, came in and slobbered all over four of them. How many books did Teagan have left that were not slobbered on?

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A Add, take-away, multiply or divide?

How many left means...

Subtract or take-away

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N Numbers to solve it. Make sense?

15 takeaway 4

15 takeaway 4 makes 11

15 4 = 11

It could get tricky!

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R Read the problem.

Nick had 14 toy trucks in his toy box.

He wanted to share them fairly with his friend Lincoln.

How many toy trucks did the boys get each?

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E Eek out and...

Eliminate the bits that are not important.

Nick had 14 toy trucks in his toy box. He wanted to share them fairly with his friend Lincoln.

How many toy trucks did the boys get each?

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Nick had 14 toy trucks in his toy box.

G Grab the keywords

He wanted to share them fairly with his friend Lincoln. How many toy trucks did the boys get each?

how many people altogether?

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A Add, take-away, multiply or divide?

Share means...

Divide

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N Numbers to solve it. Make sense?

14 trucks shared by 2 people

14 divided by 2 makes 7

Reminds me of...
2 times tables

2 x 7 = 14 or 7 x 2 = 14

If 14 2 = 7
Then 14 7 = 2

Adding altogether more join mix as well another and plus sum total

Subtract left over minus takeaway take left

Multiply groups of altogether times

Divide by into share split evenly fairly

Your turn

Three friends go out to dinner. Near the end, they get the bill and they owe the restaurant $12.00. They want to split the bill evenly between the three of them. How much will each person pay?

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R E E G A N Read the problem. Eek out and... Eliminate the bits that are not important. Grab the keywords Add, take-away, multiply or divide? Numbers to solve it. Make sense?

Three friends go out to dinner. Near the end, they get the bill and they owe the restaurant $12.00. They want to split the bill evenly between the three of them. How much will each person pay?

Quinlan is getting ready to go to a movie. She wants to figure out how many people will be there. She knows that there are 10 rows of seats, and each row has 8 seats in it. How many seats are there in the movie theatre in all?