Decoding Word Problems
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Matthew Wellner
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Yesterday you were presented with word problems to DECODE. How well did you do in following the directions on the worksheet?
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In your notebooks on page 15. Glue in the question.
Write each step in order as I model it on the board.
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It's your turn!
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
Which sentence is the question?
A company donates 935 pencils to a school.
How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
The rest of the pencils are given to the library.
The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms.
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
What do we need to find out?
Just the amount of pencils donated to each classroom.
Just the amount of pencils donated to the library.
The name of the company that donated the pencils
Both of the amounts that were donated to each classroom and then the library.
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
What is our data?
School receives 935 pencils and divides it evenly amount 9 classrooms. The rest go to the library
935 pencils and 9 classrooms.
9 Classrooms received 935 pencils.
The Library is taking the pencils.
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
What are we trying to solve first?
How many classrooms per pencil?
How many pencils for the library?
Where did the pencils come from?
How many pencils per classroom?
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
What operation will we use first?
Addition +
Subtraction −
Multiplication ⋅
Division ÷
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
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What will our first equation look like?
9 ÷ 935 = ?
935 ÷ 9 = ?
9 × 935 =?
935 − 9 = ?
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
935 ÷ 9 = ?
How many pencils will go to each classroom?
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Multiple Choice
A company donates 935 pencils to a school. The pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. The rest of the pencils are given to the library. How many pencils were donated to each classroom and to the library?
935 ÷ 9 = 103 r 8
How many pencils go to the library?
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