Word Problem Skit

Word Problem Skit  

 

 Hi class how are you today? Great and what’s the word for the day? 

Word problems that’s right we are going to talk about how to do word problems today 

So, when doing your word problems the first thing you want to do is what?  

Read the instructions that’s right before you start to work your numbers 

You have to pay attention to what they are asking you, so that you will work the word problems correctly 

Word problems are just words with your numbers  

To see how well you understand your math 

For example, when adding you may see things like 

How much? How many? What is the sum of? 

When you’re subtracting you may see things like  

What is the difference? or how much less? Or how many more 

Now how many more can be tricky because you can add or subtract  

It depends on how well you understand the question 

Just as long as it’s right  

Here’s an example, Pete has $3 and he wants to buy a burger that’s $5 

How much more or how many more dollars will Pete need so that he can buy his $5 burger? 

Now, you can do this two ways 

If you understand adding and subtracting you can either start with the $3 that Pete has add 2 to it  

Or count up to 5 to see that Pete only needs $2 more in order to buy his $5 burger  

Or you can take the $5 that the burger will cost and subtract it by the $3 that Pete already has to see how much more he will need in order to get his burger so  

That’s 5-3 or 5 subtract 3 or 5 take away 3 equals 2 

That lets you know that Pete will need 2 more dollars  

That’s easy! Sometimes there will be some information that you don’t need 

But you will have to read and pay attention to make sure you understand that you are doing your word problems correctly 

Here’s an example 

Sarah has 5 dolls and they all have pretty dresses 

Sarah’s mom bought her 3 more dolls and they wear pants 

How many dolls does Sarah have now? 

It doesn’t matter what the dolls have on?  

We just need to know how many dolls Sarah has now because her mom just bought her 3 more dolls 

Because we are talking about dolls right? 

So, Sarah already had 5 dolls and now she has 3 more 

So what is the sum of the dolls that Sarah has now 

Correct! 8! 5+3= 8 dolls 

Okay, let’s take a look at something else 

That’s it…