1. ENCORE! TEACHING MULTI-STEP WORD PROBLEMS Linda West LWest@SingaporeMathTraining.com

2. WHAT DO WE CALL THEM? STORY PROBLEMS WORD PROBLEMS EXTENDED TASKS SITUATIONS

3. ONE STEP OR TWO? Rosie is 23 pound heavier than her brother, Isaac. He weighs 15 pounds. How much do they weigh together?

4. COMPARISON LET’S TRY IT: 199 men worked in a factory. 19 more women than men work in the factory. How many people work in the factory?

5. PRACTICE PROBLEMS Alice saved $290. She saved $159 less than her brother. How much did the two of them save altogether?

6. Juan, Maria and Sara collected 130 stamps altogether. Juan collected 3 times as many stamps as Maria. Sara collected 34 stamps. How many stamps did Juan collect? Note: We never say 3 times more. That makes for a confusing problem. PRACTICE PROBLEMS

7. PART WHOLE-FRACTION

8. TAKE THE NUMBERS OUT

10. PRACTICE PROBLEMS

12. CHALLENGE PROBLEM

13. Mr. Smith had ________ students in his class. Ms. Jones had ________ fewer students than Mr. Smith. How many students were in Mr. Smith’s and Ms. Jones’s classes? Mr. Smith and Ms. Jones had _______ students in their classes altogether.

14. TEACHING STRATEGIES Use students’ names in problems. Take the numbers out of the problem. Show one sentence at a time. Ask students to predict the question. Have students visualize. Write a sentence with a blank. Fill in the numbers. Draw the model and solve.

15. A PROBLEM FOR YOU TO WORK Juan tenía 276 sellos. María tenía 99 estampillas. ¿Quién tenía más estampillas? ¿Cuántos más?

16. INTRODUCING ANNE NEWMAN 1. PLEASE READ THE QUESTION TO ME. IF YOU DON'T KNOW A WORD, LEAVE IT OUT. 2. TELL ME WHAT THE QUESTION IS ASKING YOU TO DO. 3. TELL ME HOW YOU ARE GOING TO FIND THE ANSWER. 4. SHOW ME WHAT TO DO TO GET THE ANSWER. "TALK ALOUD" AS YOU DO IT, SO THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND HOW YOU ARE THINKING. 5. NOW, WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.

17. NEWMAN’S RESEARCH 50% OF WORD PROBLEM ERRORS OCCUR BEFORE STUDENTS EVEN GET TO THE FOURTH QUESTION!

18. PRODUCTIVE FAILURE HTTP://QZ.COM/535443/THE-BEST-WAY-TO-UNDERSTAND-MATH-IS- LEARNING-HOW-TO-FAIL-PRODUCTIVELY/HTTP://QZ.COM/535443/THE-BEST-WAY-TO-UNDERSTAND-MATH-IS- LEARNING-HOW-TO-FAIL-PRODUCTIVELY/ FIT FOR FAILURE The best way to learn math is to learn how to fail productively

19. A farmer had twice as many ducks as chickens. After he had sold 413 ducks and another 19 ducks had flown away, he had half as many ducks as chickens left. How many ducks did he have left? CHALLENGE PROBLEM

20. REMEMBER!!! TEACHER IS NOT THE “SAGE ON THE STAGE.” ASK CAREFULLY SEQUENCED, DIFFERENTIATED QUESTIONS. RARELY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!

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