What is included:

• Three step strategy explanation and example
• Short word problems (each question has at least two options for differentiation)
• blank question pages to add your own short word problems.

3-Read is useful:

• For unpacking complex language, and focusing

student thinking around understanding the

quantities in a problem and their relationships

to each other.

• For understanding word problems containing

explicit and non-explicit quantities, particularly

when the problem is not in the student's

primary language.

• For surfacing the math that helps students get to

the mathematics of the unit.

• For identifying quantities and context
• For delaying the answer-getting, and facilitating

student engagement in productive struggle and

reasonable problem solving.

• For developing mathematical literacy

Students can learn

• Ways to see the mathematical structure of a

word problem

• How to identify and understand the

mathematical structure of the problem in a way

that will allow them to generalize to similar

word problems

• Strategies to draw connections between the

context of a situation and its relationship to a

math solution

• Strategies to help them unpack word problems

on their own

• Ways that the skills they use with text in other

disciplines can support their understanding of

math.

• The joy of engaging in mathematics that makes

sense.