180 Standards-Based Problems of the Day, Grade Five: Hands-On Visual Problems to Build Thinking & Reasoning Skills

Let’s make word problems visualizable! Why are word problems so hard? This workbook of 180 standards-based word problems supports students and teachers by having carefully crafted, engaging, and visualizable problems. These are problems that students can SEE! They can apply reading comprehension skills such as making a “mental movie” and “chunking” information to better comprehend and solve these problems. Each problem has a list of suggested math tools, manipulatives, and visual math models to encourage students to act out and represent the problems. Use the problems from 180 Standards-based Problems of the Day in any order! They contain both open-ended and close-ended questions and use numbers that allow students to use mental math strategies to solve. This innovative new series makes solving math problems more accessible and builds students’ thinking skills.