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Quick Look
Today your student learned about a simple problem-solving process that can be applied to any complex
word problem. It is a set of steps to break down the tasks into smaller chunks. Here is an example of
using this process to solve a problem.
I'm making a spaghetti dinner for 8 people. Each person needs 8 oz of spaghetti sauce. 28-oz jars of
spaghetti sauce are on sale. How many 28-oz jars will I need?
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© 2012 Success for All Foundation
Level F/G Unit 1 Cycle 1 Lesson 4
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Directions for questions 1–6: Solve.
1) Aimee and Tanya baked 36 pretzels. Aimee made pretzels before, so she made more than Tanya.
Tanya made half as many pretzels as Aimee did. How many did Aimee make?
2) Angela and her aunt were looking into taking a cruise. Angela read that the top speed of the cruise
ship would be 28 knots per hour. If 1 knot per hour equals 1.151 miles per hour, how fast can the ship
go in miles per hour?
3) The students in Ms. Chong’s class are making paper pinwheels. Each pinwheel has 4 sides that can
be caught by the wind. There are 29 students in Ms. Chong’s class. How many pinwheel sides are
there for the wind to catch in all?
4) Jacqueline is making apple, cranberry, and grape frozen juice pops. Each pop is made with 6 ounces
of juice. She has 24 ounces of apple juice, 36 ounces of cranberry juice, and 30 ounces of grape
juice. How many juice pops could she make?
5) Lee is helping his parents plan a big family dinner. The recipe for roast turkey says that they should
bake the turkey at 475° Fahrenheit for 45 minutes. Then, they have to lower the oven temperature
to 375° Fahrenheit and bake it for 1 1 hours longer. Finally, they have to let the turkey cool for
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15 minutes before serving it. If they want to have dinner at 6:30 p.m., what time do they need to put
the turkey in the oven?
6) Haley has enough film to take 108 pictures with her old SLR camera. She’s used three-quarters of the
film. How many pictures can she still take?
Mixed Practice
7) Estimate the product of 19 and 213.
8) 4 1 – 1 2
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©2012 Success for All Foundation
Level F/G Unit 1 Cycle 1 Lesson 4
Homework Problems
9) Find the perimeter of a rectangular yard that measures 33 1 feet in width and 12 5 in height.
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10) What is the area of this plot of land?
Word Problem
11) Explain your thinking for question 10.
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For the Guide on the Side
Today your student learned a simple process for solving real-world math problems. These five steps can
be used to make sense of and solve all different kinds of problems, and help keep your student’s thinking
organized. As your student grows, he or she will face all sorts of complex and difficult problems both in
school and eventually in the workplace. Being able to make sense of the context, interpret the given
information, see what is needed or what is missing, make a plan, and see if the result makes sense will
prove extremely useful both in math class and beyond. See the Quick Look for an example.
You might like to ask your student to explain how he or she used the problem-solving process to solve the
homework problems.
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©2012 Success for All Foundation
Level F/G Unit 1 Cycle 1 Lesson 4
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Homework Answers
1) Aimee made 24 pretzels.
2) The cruise ship can go 32.228 miles per hour.
3) There are 116 pinwheel sides for the wind to catch.
4) She could make 15 frozen juice pops.
5) They should start the turkey at 4:00 p.m.
6) Haley can still take 27 pictures.
Mixed Practice
7) Possible estimate: 20 × 200 = 4,000
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9) The perimeter of the yard is 92 2 feet.
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10) The area is 1,548 square yards.
Word Problem
11) Possible explanation: First I found the area of a large rectangle that includes the whole plot by
multiplying 34 yards × 48 yards = 1,632 square yards. Then I found the area of the small missing
rectangle by multiplying 14 yards × 6 yards = 84 square yards. Finally, I subtracted that area from the
area of the entire rectangle to get 1,632 square yards – 84 square yards = 1,548 square yards.
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© 2012 Success for All Foundation
Level F/G Unit 1 Cycle 1 Lesson 4
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