Word Problem Detectives: More • Less • Times

by Mountpeace.com

Price: 300 points or $3 USD

Subjects: mathElementary,math

Grades: 4

Description: 📘 Lesson Description This lesson teaches students how to identify and use clue words (more, less, times) to solve real-world word problems. Students practice deciding whether to add, subtract, or multiply by reading the whole problem and determining if the story is asking for a total, a difference, or equal groups/times as many. The lesson emphasizes subtraction with regrouping and basic multiplication models, aligned to FAST testing style. Students learn to: Recognize clue words. Decide the correct operation. Solve multi-digit subtraction and multiplication problems. Explain their reasoning. 📏 Standards Common Core State Standards (CCSS – Grade 4) CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.OA.A.1: Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison (e.g., 35 = 5 × 7 means 35 is 5 times as many as 7). Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.OA.A.2: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison. ✨ Together, these standards cover: Using clue words to choose operations. Multiplication as “times as many.”