Solving Multi-Step Word Problems with All Operations
Students solve multi-step word problems involving all four operations, including problems with remainders, and represent them with equations.
Key Questions
- Design an equation with a variable to represent a multi-step word problem.
- Evaluate the reasonableness of answers to multi-step problems using mental computation and estimation.
- Justify the order of operations used to solve complex word problems.
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