Grade 4 · Math · Lesson 16

Create Word Problems from Stories

Writing your own word problems helps you understand how mathematics connects to real life. A good word problem takes a story or situation and turns it into a mathematical question that can be solved.

What this lesson teaches

1Identify the key numbers and relationships in a story or real-life situation
2Write a clear word problem using numbers from a given story
3Choose the correct operation to match the relationship described
4Solve the word problem created and check the answer

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