Practice, practice and more practice helps students “cement” their understanding of solving seemingly complicated word problems.  Grab this 1 hour lesson for engaging, fun and purposeful instruction.  Your 3rd graders will:

• Collaborate with peers and practice key math vocabulary
• Read and extract information to help solve a word problem using all four operations
• Use the acronym CUBES to follow the “steps for solving word problems
• Create visual models (arrays) for word problems
• Complete an exit ticket to help guide planning next instructional steps

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the Math Bundle: “Multiplication and Division Word Problems Bundle,” will result in duplicate content.

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