This week, Primary 5 were trying to improve their problem-solving skills!
We were focusing on multi-step problems, where we had to link two operations together (e.g. multiplication and addition, or addition and subtraction). We were given problems in context and had to use key words to work out the operations we needed to use. We also had to make our working very clear so Miss McLaughlin could see the steps we took. Have a look at some of our work below.
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Until next time…
Primary 5 & Miss M 🙂