Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Identify Missing or Extra Information StudyJam

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Overview

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to identify missing or extra information in word problems in order to create appropriate equations. By identifying missing or extra information in word problems, students will be able to correctly interpret and solve multistep word problems. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. Students will write mathematical equations and expressions when completing the teaching and practice problems. A handout that reviews the strategies taught during the activity can be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

    MA19.4.3

    Determine and justify solutions for multi-step word problems, including problems where remainders must be interpreted.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.4.3

    Vocabulary

    • Operation
    • Multi Step problem
    • Remainder
    • Unknown quantity
    • Equation
    • Rounding
    • Mental strategy
    • Partition
    • Estimation
    • Reasonableness

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Context situations represented by the four operations.
    • How to calculate sums, differences, products, and quotients.
    • Estimation strategies to justify solutions as reasonable.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Solve multi-step word situations using the four operations.
    • Represent quantities and operations physically, pictorially, or symbolically.
    • Write equations to represent the word problem and use symbols to represent unknown quantities.
    • Use context and reasoning to interpret remainders.
    • Use estimation strategies to assess reasonableness of answers by comparing actual answers to estimates.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Using problem solving strategies will help them determine which operation to use to solve a problem.
    • Remainders must be interpreted based on the context, and remainders are sometimes ignored, rounded up, or partitioned.
    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 5

    MA19.5.1

    Write, explain, and evaluate simple numerical expressions involving the four operations to solve up to two-step problems. Include expressions involving parentheses, brackets, or braces, using commutative, associative, and distributive properties.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.5.1

    Vocabulary

    • Expression
    • Calculate
    • Interpret
    • Evaluate
    • Compare
    • Reasoning
    • Grouping symbol
    • Parentheses
    • Braces
    • Brackets
    • Commutative property
    • Associative property
    • Distributive property

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Vocabulary associated with the four operations to write the symbolic notation of the mathematical expression.
      Example: The phrase, "the product of 4 and 3" is written as "4 x 3."
    • Strategies for evaluating a numerical expression and replace it with an equivalent form.
      Example: Given (22 + 16) + 43 can be replaced with 38 + 43 and then further simplified.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Write, explain, and evaluate numerical expressions representing two-step problems in context.
    • Evaluate numerical expressions with grouping symbols.
    • Translate a numerical expression into words.
    • Write a numerical expression given a mathematical expression in words.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • multi-step word problems can be represented by numerical expressions using operations and grouping symbols to indicate order of evaluating them.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    http://studyjams.scholastic.com/
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