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3rd grade · Math · Unit 12 of 14

Two-Step Stories

Solve problems in two steps

What your child practices

Word problems that take two steps with any of the four operations, choosing an equation with a letter for the unknown, and checking an answer by estimating.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: 3.OA.D.8 · solving two-step problems with the four operations and checking answers by estimating

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Read the story and find the two steps.
  2. Do the first step, then use its answer in the second.
  3. Check: is the answer close to an estimate?

Example: Maya buys 4 packs of 6 stickers and gives away 5. How many are left? Step 1: 4 × 6 = 24. Step 2: 24 − 5 = 19. Answer: 19

Two-Step Stories in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 12 of 14 in 3rd grade Math, after Times Tens and before Halves & Fourths of an Inch.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Maine Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Leo picks 19 apples in the morning and 9 in the afternoon. Leo puts them in bags of 4. How many bags are filled?

    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
    • 8
    • 28

  2. Question 2

    Mia adds 456 + 260 and gets 916. Round to the nearest hundred to check. Is that answer reasonable?

    • No, it is far from the estimate
    • Yes, it is close to the estimate

  3. Question 3

    Jay buys 5 packs of 3 stickers and gives away 10. How many stickers are left?

    • 5
    • 4
    • 15
    • 6
    • 3

  4. Question 4

    Ana has 6 bags with 6 grapes in each and eats 2. Which equation finds the grapes left, g?

    • 6 × 6 − 2 = g
    • 6 × (6 + 2) = g
    • 6 + 6 − 2 = g
    • 6 × 6 + 2 = g

  5. Question 5

    Sam picks 10 apples in the morning and 32 in the afternoon. Sam puts them in bags of 7. How many bags are filled?

    • 42
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 8

  6. Question 6

    Ana has 26 cards and gets 4 more. Ana shares all the cards equally among 5 friends. How many cards does each friend get?

    • 5
    • 16
    • 6
    • 3
    • 7

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