Word Problems

1)There are four boys and four girls in a

class. The boys in the class get 5 of the 8
new pencils in the class every month. What
fraction of new pencils do the girls get
every month?

What do we know about the problem?

- We know that the boys in the class get
_____ pencils of the _____ new _________
every month, so the fraction of pencils
the boys get is______.

What do we need to find out?

- We need to find out what ________ of new
pencils the _______ get every month.

How can we solve this problem?

- A fraction is______of a whole.
- We know that the boys in the class get
___ of the new ______ every month.
- To find out how many pencils girls get,
we must find the remaining _____ of the
whole.
- We will subtract ___ from the whole ____.
Solve the problem, show your work:

How did you solve the problem?

- I found the remaining _____ of the whole
and subtracted ____ from the whole ___.
- First, I subtracted the______________ and
got ____. I kept the _______________ the
same because only parts of the ______
size can be subtracted.
- I got_____ as my final answer.
- The __________ of new pencils the _____
get every month is_____.

Is the answer to this problem fair or not

fair?
- This problem is ____ fair because the
_____ get a bigger fraction of the
pencils. The boys get ____ of the
pencils. The girls get a _________ fraction
of the pencils. The girls only get ____ of
the pencils and that is ______ fair.
How many more pencils do the boys get
than the girls?
- The boys get 5 pencils and the girls get
____ pencils. This means the boys get
_____ more pencils than the girls and
this is _____ fair.

How can we make this problem fair? What

would you do?
- I would give each girl in the class _____
pencils and give each boy in the class
___ pencils because there are ___
pencils in total. If I did this each
student would have the
_________amount of pencils.
- Do you agree?
- I agree because ____.
- I disagree because_____.
- Would you do something different?

2)Jasmine just moved to the United States.

Jasmine lives 2 and 3/8 miles away from
the closest school. But, Jasmine does not
go to the closest school to her house.
Jasmine goes to school 5 and 4⁄ 8 miles
further from the closest school. She can’t
go to the closest school because that
school does not have a class where
Jasmine can learn English, and Jasmine is
still learning English. How many miles from
her real school does Jasmine live now?

What do we know about the problem?

- We know that Jasmine lives ___and___
miles away from the closest school.
- But, Jasmine does __ go to the closest
school to her house, because it does
not have a class where Jasmine can
learn _____.
- Jasmine goes to school ___and___ miles
further from the closest school.

What do we need to find out?

- We need to find out how many _______
from her real ______ does Jasmine ______
now.

How can we solve this problem?

- We should use __________ mixed
__________ to solve this problem.

Solve the problem, show your work:

How did you solve the problem?
- First, I added the _______ numbers
together.
- I kept the ________of the whole numbers
and got _______.
- Second, I ___________the
_________together and got ___________.
- The denominator stays the same
because only parts of the ________ size
can be added.
- The final answer is ______ and ______
because a mixed number is a whole
number and a fraction.
- Jasmine lives _______and________ miles
from her school now.

Do you think it is fair that Jasmine lives 7

and ⅞ miles from school?
- I think it is _______ fair that Jasmine
lives _____and ____miles from her school
because Jasmine lives ______and_____-
miles away from the closest school now
and could go there instead. It is _____
fair that Jasmine can’t go to the
_________ school because that school
does not have a class where Jasmine
 can learn ________, and Jasmine is still
learning English.
What can be done? How do we solve this?
- We can solve this by ……