🔵 Problem Solving with Addition Day 35

Problem Solving with Addition

Introduction

Marvelous Mathematicians, today you will problem solve through addition word problems. You will get to show off the way you think through a problem. 

Guided Learning

Filling the Theater

On a field trip, three different schools send their fourth graders across town to a theater for a show. Each school sends between 120 and 170 students each. There are 417 students total. 

Visualizing Word Problems
Cinema
  1. Read the problem above and write a response statement.
  2. Reread the problem piece by piece and visualize what is happening in the word problem using a drawing or diagram.  Remember to read the problems as many times as you need to in order to understand what is going on. Also, label your visual with numbers and words to make the diagram clear.
  3. Write an equation that helps to represent the visual/word problem.
  4. Solve the problem using a strategy of your choice.
  5. Complete your response. statement.

Independent Practice: Flipgrid

Click "Next" to create a flipgrid to share your thinking about the word problem above.

 

Flip Grid Video Task: Answer each of the following parts making sure to visually display your thinking.  Then, make sure to present your final solutions as a FlipGrid video.

Part 1:

How many students could have come from each school? Show your thinking. 

 

Part 2: 

Find another possible solution to this task. Show your thinking. 

 

Part 3:

If the number of students from each school was the same, how many students came from each school?  Explain how you found your solution.

 

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