
Story Problems 1 - May 01, 2023
Lesson Collection #1 - Lesson 21a
These Story Problem lessons are a great way for students to practice writing, spelling, vocabulary development, listening and reading skills.
Although the math problem solving isn't difficult on the first two lessons, students will learn the meaning and use of mathamatic terms including: double, triple, 1/3, 2/3, a fourth, each, per, left, added, remained and split.
Each worksheet has space for four Story Problems, two of them are printed on the sheet and two of them have lines for students to write out the Story Problems as dictated by their partners.
Although the answers are provided in the "reader's box," the partner will still need to be sure that all the facts are correct in order to answer th questions correctly.
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Minutes after beginning each lesson, classes often become noisy. At times, very noisy. Why? Students, in pairs or small groups, actively engage in completing the lesson task. They use English to learn English.
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Oral communication is important. Listening and speaking have priority in our lessons; students need to carefully listen to each other. Reading is also important for the success of the lessons. The amount of writing required varies.
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We believe students learn better when having fun. Our lessons range from silly to serious but each has a solid task-specific educational goal including grammar usage, vocabulary building and fluency improvement to name a few.
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