Introduction
Welcome students!
The goal of this lesson is to use the four operations
- multiplication
- multiplication
- addition
- subtraction
with whole numbers to solve word problems.
CUBE Strategy:
Task
Our Task for Today is:
Required:
- Distinguish between a multiplicative comparison from an additive comparison given in a word problem.
- Identify multiplicative comparisons in a word problem.
- Express a multiplicative comparison into an equation with an unknown and solve the word problem.
- Have the ability to incorporate multiplication and division to solve a word problem
- Express final answer in sentence form to communicate verbally
Extra Credit:
Identify a situation that you encountered in the last week and write a word problem to express it using multiplicative comparison.
Process
Let us begin!
Watch these 2 videos to learn how to use multiplication and division to solve word problem.
Evaluation
Practice what you have learned!
Check your knowledge! Click on the following link to take a quiz! Complete the quiz, save it and submit it to me.
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/math/4th_grade_word_problems/quiz682.html
Challenge:
Using google docs create a file and write your word problem in the document and share it with me.
Conclusion
In this lesson we learned how to:
Identify key words and phrases in a word problem to determine the type of mathematical equation to use.
Use multiplicative comparison to solve word problems
Use multiplication, division, addition and subtraction to solve word problems
Use structure and methods to breakdown word problems
Credits
Youtube.com
KhanAcademy.org
softschools.com
google.com