Grade 3
Lesson: 13-5
Reference to English
Problem Solving: Try, Check and
Revise
Math Standard(s): 3.MD.8
Domain: Measurement and Data
Content objective(s):
Language Objective(s):
Students will solve a problem through the process of try, check
Students will create their own word problem and say it to a
and revise.
friend.
I can solve a problem through the process of try, check and
I can create and say my own word problem.
revise.
Essential Understanding:
Required Academic Vocabulary for Word Wall:
Some problems can be solved by making a reasoned first try for Listen:
what the answer might be and then, through additional
Read:
reasoning, arrive at the correct answer.
Write:
Speak:
Sentence Frame:
Materials:
Additional Lesson Vocabulary:
 Colored chalk
 Guided and Independent Practice
Lesson:
Instructional Time:
Opening: (3 minutes)
T: “Today you will learn a strategy called TRY, CHECK, and REVISE that you can use for solving problems.”
 Explain the strategy – TRY, CHECK, and REVISE.
Introduction to New Material (Direct Instruction): (20 minutes)
 Pass out whiteboards, erasers and markers.
 Use Topic 13-5 Pose a Problem.
 Questions
o What information is given in the problem?
o What do you need to find?
 Go through Guided and Independent Practice as a whole group.
 Remember to have them talk to their neighbors or solve with their neighbors.
Closing: (7 minutes)
 Have students create their own word problems and share it with a friend. The friend will solve the problem and then share
their own.
Assessment:
Whole Class problem solving.