Need a word problem intervention designed for special education and RTI-- a word problem program that separates out the complexity of the language from the complexity of the computation? The word problem mastery series has been designed to help students with disabilities and mathematics difficulties systematically build word problem skills and learn how to show their work and explain their reasoning. Choose the level of computation difficulty and word problem complexity that matches your students' needs and watch them grow! Not sure where to start? Check out the free placement test!

This Product

The Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping Word Problem Bundle includes three workbooks with 40 word problems each, teachers' guides, and spaces for students to show their work and explain their reasoning.

• One Step Word Problems: Problems include a mixture of straight forward and more complex phrasing such as, “The final score for the game was Cavaliers 77, Heat 92. Who won? By how much?”
• Extra Information Word Problems: Includes straight forward problems and those with extra information such as, “Claudio walked for the first time today! He took 2 steps, fell down, and took 5 more steps! Then he started crawling and crawled for 5 minutes. How many steps did he take?”
• Beginning Two Step Word Problems: Includes a mixture of straight-forward and complex one step word problems and beginning two step problems, such as, "David has 553 friends on Facebook. He unfriends 50 of them. Then he gets 12 more friend requests. How many friends does he now have on Facebook?"

The Word Problem Intervention Series

Each of the 12 workbooks in the series includes 40 word problems, with space for students to explain their reasoning, show their work, and write number sentences. Each also includes a detailed answer keys. The twelve workbooks are sold individually, in bundles, and a mega bundle with significant savings!

• Addition & Subtraction Facts Word Problem Bundle
  • Beginning Word Problems: Problems are straight-forward like, “The bat ate seven bugs. Then he ate six more. How many bugs did he eat?”
  • One Step Word Problems: Problems include a mixture of straight-forward and more ambiguous phrasing, such as, “I am 2 years older than my brother. He is 9. How old am I?”
  • Beginning Two Step Word Problems: Problems include one step and beginning two step problems, such as, “Mrs. Vanwinkle got nine crayfish. Three died. Then four more were born. How many does she have now?”
• Multiplication & Division Facts Word Problem Bundle
  • One Step Word Problems with Multiplication & Division Facts: Problems use straight forward phrasing, such as, “Leon sold 8 paintings for $9 each. How much money did he make?”
  • One Step Word Problems with All Four Operations: Includes word problems for all four operations with straight-forward language such as, “Leon sold 8 paintings for $9 each. How much money did he make?”
  • Beginning Two Step Word Problems with All Four Operations: Word problems include some beginning two step word problems such as, “A gray wolf needs about 7 pounds of meat a day. A wolf found 48 pounds of meat. The wolf gave 13 founds to his pack. How many days worth of food does he have left?"
• Basic Operations Word Problems Bundle
  • One Step Word Problems with Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Long Division: Includes problems such as, “A grizzly bear walked for four hours. It made it 50 miles. How fast was it walking?”
  • Fractions & Ratios Word Problems: Includes both straight-forward problems and those requiring fractions, conversions, or ratios to solve such as, “There are about 58,000 bees in a hive. One fourth of them are the pollen collectors who get food for the hive. How many bees in a hive are pollen collectors?”
  • Two Step Word Problems: These problems require advanced reasoning skills. Problems include, "Scarlet macaws are often stolen from the jungle by poachers who sell them to animal smugglers for $200. The animal smugglers then bring them to the United States where they are sold for up to $4,000. How much profit does a smuggler make on buying and selling 10 macaws?"

Need Interventions for Calculation and Computation?

• Check out the companion Number Sense and Operations series and start building students' skills from addition facts to long division!

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• Check out the IEP Writing Success Kit series and start writing better, faster IEPs today!

Common Core Alignment

• Standards for Mathematics Practice 1 (make sense of problems) and 3 (construct viable arguments)
• Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.A.1
• Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.A.3
• Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.3
• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole CCSS.Math.Content.5.NF.A.2