Lesson Plan
Word Problem Comprehension
Make sure your students understand the word problem before they begin to solve it! Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for *Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed-Operations - Gamified!*
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed Operations - Gamified! lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed Operations - Gamified! lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to solve two-step, mixed operation word problems.
Language
Students will be able to analyze the meaning of word problems and plan to solve them using a graphic organizer.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Invite students to a common area in the classroom with their whiteboard and whiteboard marker. Tell them that you want to play a word association game. You will write a word on the board and they will draw the first thing that comes to mind when you say the word aloud. There will be no talking during this game until the class discusses answers.
- Write the word "operation" on the board and instruct students to draw an image on their whiteboard of the first thing that comes to mind. Give them about one minute to do this.
- Discuss students' word associations for the word, and point out that this word has multiple meanings. Mention that an operation is a procedure that doctors do to help someone get better, and it's also a number process in mathematics. Discuss any additional associations students made based on the way the word sounds (e.g., opposite, opinion). Today's lesson will be about looking at the word problems and determining the mathematical operations, which are the number processes such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, to use.