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| Comparing Quantities Key Words |
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twice as
double
two times as
three times as
four times as
five times as
____ times as |
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| Steps to Making Bar Models when Comparing Quantities |
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1. What do we want to know?
2. What are we comparing?
3. Make labels for what we are comparing
4. Draw bars next to labels to show how much we have of each thing we are comparing |
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Comparing Quantities Example |
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Jacob has 80 tunes on his iPod. That's 8 times as many tunes as Rachel has. How many tunes does Rachel have?
1. What do we want to know?
How many tunes Rachel has.
2. What are we comparing?
We are comparing the number of tunes that Jacob has to the number of tunes that Rachel has. |
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| Steps to find the Missing Product |
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1. What are we trying to find?
2. What is the total?
3. What is the part?
4. How many parts? |
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Marissa is saving her money to buy a computer. She has saved $4 each week for the last 4 weeks. How much money has Marissa saved so far?
1. What do we want to know?
We want to know how much money Marissa has saved so far.
2. What is the total?
We don't know the total money.
3. What is the part?
$4 each week
4. How many parts?
4 weeks |
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The story does not tell us everything we need to know to solve the problem.
We have to ask ourselves, "WHAT ELSE do I need to know BEFORE I can solve this problem?" |
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We have to decide what operations we are going to use solve each step.
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division |
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