Lesson Plan
Writing Questions for Word Problems
Empower students to think like mathematicians by having them create word problems related to subtracting mixed numbers. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to solve subtraction problems with mixed numbers that have like denominators using the decomposition strategy.
Language
Students will be able to write questions to go with word problems using a graphic organizer and peer support.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Read aloud the student-facing content and language objectives for this lesson.
- Briefly define any unknown terms in the objectives and emphasize that today the students will play the role of the teacher as they create questions to go along with information in word problems.