Math Possibilities

I use this as I teach my students to solve word problems. Too often our students are told to read a word problem until they understand it, but if they do not know what the word problem is saying that strategy will not work. Since our school does a lot of dissecting/annotating/close reading of text I wanted to incorporate that same thought into math.

There are five real life problems that get students thinking about money, mileage, and life. Students are given the problem and they need to come up with extra questions to solve to find a solution.