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Word Problem Wednesday – Farmer Fred

November 14, 2018 by 1 Comment

This month’s Word Problem Wednesday problem comes from Math in Focus Grade 3.

Farmer Fred makes 4 quarts of orange juice on Monday. He makes 2 quarts more orange juice on Tuesday than on Monday. He makes 2 more quarts on Wednesday than on Tuesday. He carries on making 2 more quarts of orange juice every day than the day before. In how many days will he make a total of 80 pints of orange juice?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!

Last month’s problem was from Primary Mathematics Challenging Word Problems 3:

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Word Problem Wednesday – Jason and Louis

September 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment

This month’s Word Problem Wednesday problem comes from Primary Mathematics Challenging Word Problems 3.

Jason and Louis picked up a total of 30 cans. For every 2 cans that Jason picked up, Louis picked up 3 cans. How many cans did each boy pick up?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!

Last month’s problem was from Dimensions Math 6A:

 

Here’s a solution from Reader Shirley Davis:

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Word Problem Wednesday – Laiza’s Dress

August 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment

This month’s problem comes from Dimensions Math 6A and highlights the unitary method of solving problems:

Laiza spent 38% of her money on a dress and the rest on a purse. If she spent $114 on the dress, how much did she spend on the purse?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!

 

Last month’s problem was from the website TestPapersFree.com, which provides past copies of continual and semestral assessments from Singapore Primary Schools. This is a great resource if you’re looking to see questions directly from Singapore classrooms. The problem is from Raffles Girls School,  Grade 4, and is a Semester 2 assessment, which is the final term of the year.

Pei Ling had 3 times as many cards Zandy. Sulaiman had half the number of cards Zandy had. There were a total of 1278 cards.
How many more cards did Pei Ling have than Zandy?

Here’s a solution from Reader Shirley Davis:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Word Problem Wednesday – Pei Ling, Zandy, and Sulaiman

July 11, 2018 by 2 Comments

This month’s problem comes from the website TestPapersFree.com, which provides past copies of continual and semestral assessments from Singapore Primary Schools. This is a great resource if you’re looking to see questions directly from Singapore classrooms. This problem is from Raffles Girls School,  Grade 4, and is a Semester 2 assessment, which is the final term of the year.

Pei Ling had 3 times as many cards Zandy.
Sulaiman had half the number of cards Zandy had.
There were a total of 1278 cards.
How many more cards did Pei Ling have than Zandy?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!

The prior problem was from the Grade 6 STAAR 2013-2017 Released Test questions from lead4ward aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS.

There are 176 slices of bread in 8 loaves. If there are the same number of slices in each loaf, how many slices of bread are there in 5 loaves?

 

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Word Problem Wednesday – Rulers and Bread

June 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Word Problem Wednesday was such a hit, we’re going to continue throughout the year with one problem a month.

This problem popped up in my Medium feed last month:

Algebraic expressions — the return! Guess the Misconception author Craig Barton noted that on a quiz website for test prep in the UK,  only 1 in 3 students could answer this problem correctly. At the time, I was also analyzing the value of model drawing by reviewing released problems from the 6th-grade STAAR tests, so my first thought was, hmm, how would this work as a bar model?

Pretty well, actually. If I know that:

I can find:

The AQA is an independent education charity that offers GCSE testing in the UK. DiagnosticQuestions.com provides multiple choice questions so you can build your own assessment, or use one of their collections.

Check out a bar model solution:

 

Finally, this month’s problem comes from the Grade 6 STAAR 2013-2017 Released Test questions from lead4ward aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS. It aligns to the standard:

6.4(B) (New) Proportional Reasoning: Apply qualitative and quantitative reasoning to solve prediction and comparison of real-world problems involving ratios and rates.

There are 176 slices of bread in 8 loaves. If there are the same number of slices in each loaf, how many slices of bread are there in 5 loaves?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!

The prior problem was from the Teacher’s Guide for Primary Mathematics US Edition 5A.

We had a couple of submissions.

Here’s Shirley Davis’ model and algebra combo:

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