Parts of Word Problems
What is a Word Problem?
Word Problems, or Number Stories, are an awesome way of expressing, or explaining, what happens in a number sentence.
There can be 3 parts to a Number Story.
In this website, Number Story will be like a hamburger style.
This means that the first sentence will tell a background story. This information is not needed to solve the Word Problem.
The middle sentences will tell what happens with numbers in the Word Problem. Like a hamburger, the middle sentences are the meat. They are the most important parts of the Word Problem.
The last sentence will ask a question. You will use the middle sentences to answer that question.
Let's check out our example.
There can be 3 parts to a Number Story.
In this website, Number Story will be like a hamburger style.
This means that the first sentence will tell a background story. This information is not needed to solve the Word Problem.
The middle sentences will tell what happens with numbers in the Word Problem. Like a hamburger, the middle sentences are the meat. They are the most important parts of the Word Problem.
The last sentence will ask a question. You will use the middle sentences to answer that question.
Let's check out our example.
Hey, look! It is a hamburger model!
We will use this model to help us better understand how to read a word problem.