2nd Grade Math Word Problem of the Day: May Morning Work Challenge Word Problems

Description

These May-themed math worproblems are a great way to challenge your students with engaging word problems! Plus, they are provided in a paper-saving print version or fully digital via Google Slides for easy differentiation.

Designed to take less than 15 minutes per day - including giving students time to solve, discuss, and review - each month's problems include single-step, multi-step, and word problems with extra information. This helps build students' capacity for critical thinking and mathematical problem-solving skills.

The problems increase in complexity across the months. This is purposefully done to help prepare your 2nd grade students for the types of problems they may see on state tests and as they progress through elementary school.

You'll receive:

• Daily Problem Solving Teacher's Guide for Digital & Print

• 5 weeks of May-themed word problems - in both Google Slides & Print

• Answer keys

• Access to step-by-step directions for assigning these in Google Classroom

Word Problem Themes:

Each week includes a fun fact and the word problems are themed to align with monthly holidays, special events, and learner-friendly topics. This month's topics are:

✔ Week 1: Video Games

✔ Week 2: Mother's Day

✔ Week 3: Bicycles

✔ Week 4: Summer Safety

✔ Week 5: Barbecue

Ways to Use the Problems:
• Digital classrooms or for home learning
• During whole or small group math instruction
• Projected or on an interactive whiteboard as a daily problem-solving warm-up
• Test prep
• Independent enrichment or challenge problems for early finishers

Benefits of a Problem of the Day format:
❑ Daily practice builds routine and structure for practice
❑ Less overwhelming to reluctant or struggling learners
❑ Helps identify students who may need additional support
❑ Encourages discussion about skills & strategies

Get the 12-month bundle here: 2nd Grade Daily Problem Solving (Print + Digital Bundle)

Terms of Use:
© 2020 Rebecca Davies. All rights reserved by the author. These materials are intended for personal use by a single classroom only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. For use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license.

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2nd Grade Math Word Problem of the Day: May Morning Work Challenge Word Problems

Name: 2nd Grade Math Word Problem of the Day: May Morning Work Challenge Word Problems
Brand: Differentiated Teaching with Rebecca Davies
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Grades

2nd

Subjects

Math Test Prep, Other (Math)

Standards

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP3

Description

You'll receive:

• Daily Problem Solving Teacher's Guide for Digital & Print

• 5 weeks of May-themed word problems - in both Google Slides & Print

• Answer keys

• Access to step-by-step directions for assigning these in Google Classroom

Word Problem Themes:

Each week includes a fun fact and the word problems are themed to align with monthly holidays, special events, and learner-friendly topics. This month's topics are:

✔ Week 1: Video Games

✔ Week 2: Mother's Day

✔ Week 3: Bicycles

✔ Week 4: Summer Safety

✔ Week 5: Barbecue

Get the 12-month bundle here: 2nd Grade Daily Problem Solving (Print + Digital Bundle)

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July 13, 2021

I loved using this resource with my daily morning math talks. Thank you.

Natalie V.

86 reviews

Grades taught: 2nd, 3rd

Student populations: Learning difficulties

Rated 5 out of 5

July 27, 2020

This is great for students who need a challenge.

Kathleen R.

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Grades taught: 2nd

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February 15, 2020

These word problems are great! I love the facts of the week too!

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June 14, 2019

Excellent resource to consistently work on problem solving! I used this with below level third graders.

Jeannine B.

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May 16, 2019

Thank you!

Kasey R.

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May 16, 2018

I used these in fifth grade and now in second. Great practice!

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Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.