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.

There are 16 task cards all revolved around work with fraction including plotting on number lines, comparing, ordering, adding, subtracting, defining, and explaining.

This is to help students solve problems by first finding possible facts in the problem. From those facts students can then determine the problem they need to solve.

This activity is like the show flea market flip. it will teach students about making profits and percent markup.