5th Grade Schema-based Math Lessons and Activities Bundle

Description

Do your students get hung up and confused with word problems? They probably do not understand the underlying structure of word problems. Teaching your students to approach and solve word problems using schema-based math will provide them with a deeper understanding of how math works in the real world. Guide your students through learning about additive and multiplicative schemas with this bundle of lessons and activities!

This bundle includes student materials and lesson guidance for teaching students how to identify and solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each lesson includes 12 problems - 4 modeling problems, 4 guided practice, and 4 independent practice, as well as a complete answer key. Math problems involve the multiplication and division of multi-digit whole numbers and multi-digit decimal numbers. Word problem structures include:

- Combining (Additive)

- Difference (Additive)

- Change (Additive)

- Equal Parts (Multiplicative)

- Comparison (Multiplicative)

Also included:

- Additive Structures Notes Catcher (used throughout additive lessons and beyond)

- Multiplicative Structures Notes Catcher (used throughout multiplicative lessons and beyond)

- 5th Grade Mixed Additive Word Problems with answer key (12 additional problems)

- 5th Grade Multiplicative Word Problem Practice with answer key (12 additional word problems)

- 5th Grade Mixed Word Problem Review with answer key (12 additional word problems)

- 5th Grade Mixed Word Problems Quick Reviews & Quiz with answer key (10 2-question review problems and a 5-question quiz)

Check out my blog post on teaching schema-based math to help students solve word problems.

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5th Grade Schema-based Math Lessons and Activities Bundle

Name: 5th Grade Schema-based Math Lessons and Activities Bundle
Brand: Embrace Your Exceptionality
SKU: 7664005
Price: 15.00 USD
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Highlights

Grades

5th - 8th

Subjects

Applied Math, Math, Other (Math)

Standards

CCSS5.NBT.B.7

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

Description

- Combining (Additive)

- Difference (Additive)

- Change (Additive)

- Equal Parts (Multiplicative)

- Comparison (Multiplicative)

Also included:

- Additive Structures Notes Catcher (used throughout additive lessons and beyond)

- Multiplicative Structures Notes Catcher (used throughout multiplicative lessons and beyond)

- 5th Grade Mixed Additive Word Problems with answer key (12 additional problems)

- 5th Grade Multiplicative Word Problem Practice with answer key (12 additional word problems)

- 5th Grade Mixed Word Problem Review with answer key (12 additional word problems)

- 5th Grade Mixed Word Problems Quick Reviews & Quiz with answer key (10 2-question review problems and a 5-question quiz)

Check out my blog post on teaching schema-based math to help students solve word problems.

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September 22, 2025

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I love how this activity helped me to group situations so students can better attack word problems.

Alexandria Hopp

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238 reviews • Michigan

Grades taught: 6th, 7th, 8th

Rated 5 out of 5

January 9, 2025

Such a time-saver! And so helpful in teaching a schema based approach!

My Life At The Pencil Sharpener

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Grades taught: 5th

Student populations: Learning difficulties

Questions & Answers

Standards

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

CCSS5.NBT.B.7

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

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.