As we speak, I'm typing up a mixed bag of word problems to give them tomorrow and see if it really stuck! Let's hope so! They all agreed that this helped them to better tell the difference between the two types of problems. I wrote the original expression we came up with in black and then any work we did was done in red. The visual models are what really helped to solidify which numbers you were multiplying or dividing. We dissected these word problems, underlined key phrases that they felt helped them to know what type of problem they were reading, and drew visual models for many of them. Oops! I just noticed I flip flopped the title pages on this. I'm still torn over whether or not this was a productive use of our time. I hemmed and hawed over whether or not I should have them take the time to write out the problems themselves or if I should type them onto the foldable, but in the end I decided that I wanted them to write them. I had the students copy the word problems on a foldable so that they could put them into their math journals and reference them later. We spent an entire hour walking through 8 different word problems that are representative of the types of problems kids most often come across. We practiced and practiced, and finally I resorted to an anchor chart and accompanying foldable.
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They knew how to divide and multiply fractions, and *sometimes* they could figure out if a word problem was multiplying or dividing, but then some of them didn't know which number should be the dividend vs. Once we had the skills down, we moved on to word problems, which some of my students really struggled with. Everything we have taught our kids seems to go out the window! Short reviews of the various science resources and curricula I have used with my own children.If you teach the upper grades, you likely know how maddening it is to try to teach your students the difference between a multiplication word problem and a division word problem when it comes to fractions. Keeping math skills sharp in the summer.Mental math "mathemagic" with Arthur Benjamin (video).Seven reasons behind math anxiety and how to prevent it.
This article explains some of those relationships. To do that, they need to see the RELATIONSHIP between the different quantities in the problem. Students often have problems setting up an equation for a word problem in algebra.