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Students will solve career word problems based on math
operational sentences. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
How do I solve math word problems? How can I create my own
Math word problems?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 5
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
6
Topic: Skills to
understand and use career information.
Standard:
Describe work of family members, school personnel, and
community workers. Identify occupations according to data, people, and things.
Identify work activities of interest to the student. Describe the relationship
of beliefs, attitudes, interests, and abilities to occupations. Describe jobs
that are present in the local community. Identify the working conditions of
occupations (e.g., , inside/outside, hazardous). Describe ways in which
self-employment differs from working for others. Describe how parents,
relatives, adult friends, and neighbors can provide career information.
Grade: 5
Mathematics
Problem Solving
24
Topic: Word
Problems
Standard: Selects and
uses appropriate strategies for solving problems (e.g., look for a pattern,
guess and check, make an organized list, simplify the problem, work
backwards).
25
Topic: Estimation
Standard: Predicts measurement by using strategies such as walking off and
rough comparison.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 10 min.
Allow students the opportunity to develop creative stories
involving math that could be solved using math operational sentences. Begin the
lesson by modeling how this can be done with everyday situations.
Step: 2 Duration: 20 min.
Encourage students to work problems on the board and divide
into small cooperative groups to create their own career math word problems and
solve them. Example: May is a cashier at the local grocery store. She sold Tom
two sodas for $.50 and a bag of chips for $.25. How much did she charge him, not
including the tax?
Materials and Equipment
Chalkboard, Paper and pencil
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
30 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Have students write a career math problem and illustrate it.
Then, create a class book of word problems.
Remediation
For extra help in math word problems, print reproducibles from
www.mathstories.com.
Accommodation
Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can
be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in
classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC
standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of
this lesson plan.
