Curriculum placement
Grade 4. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Multi-step word problems
Solve multistep stories with remainders and estimates
Problem types
- Compare what you must buy
- Estimate and check reasonableness
- Two-step whole-number and unit stories
- Estimate with compatible and front-end numbers
- Match a strip diagram to an equation
- Count complete kits
- Make room for everyone
- Find unused items
Builds on
- Multi-operation word problems
- Rounding whole numbers
- Odd and even numbers · Useful idea
When each kit holds two items, an even total fills complete kits. An odd total leaves one item over.
Leads to
- Solving two-step equations · See it applied
The steps in a multi-step story can be written as one equation with an unknown, then undone in reverse order.
- Linear equations from constraints · See it applied
A multistep story with an unknown total is written as a linear equation whose coefficients are rates and whose constant is a starting amount.
- Systems that model two constraints · See it applied
Two multistep stories about the same unknown are written together as a system of equations.
Related skills
- Decimal place value through thousandths · Shared foundations
- Place value of large whole numbers · Shared foundations
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