Today I'm linking up with K's Classroom Kreations and Theresa's Teaching Tidbits for Math Tip Monday. This post is all about teaching word problems!
The math curriculum we use at school has a huge emphasis on teaching word problems. Needless to say, my students get a ton of practice with making sense of word problems!
The key to teaching word problems is to get the students to really consider what the problem is saying and asking you to do. I've found that best way to do this is annotating the problem. We already do this in reading all the time so why not do it in math, too?
This could be glued into an interactive notebook as a resource. The chart in my classroom looks just like this, except not as cute. Click the picture to download this FREEBIE in my TpT store!
We go through each of these steps every time we solve word problems. It is a systematic way to get students to consider the problem, and figure out the best strategy to solve it. The best part - it can be used for any grade or operation!
Check out some of the other ideas for teaching those dreaded word problems:
I LOVE your interactive notebook freebie. Such a great layout of the steps to solving a story problem. And it's super cute to boot :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! Hope you can use it with your kiddos :)
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