Singapore Word problem

Rectangular modeling with money.

Word Problems!

In these examples rectangular modeling is used.

Rectangular modeling with money.

Rectangular modeling word problem.

Success here occurs by creating a model that has the lightest weight as the base size rectangle.

Fish Tank Volume word problem

Rectangular modeling problem involving "fractions of a remainder"

The trick to these "fraction of a remainder" rectangular modeling problems is to choose the correct number of squares to make up your original rectangle. Always choose the least common multiple of your denominators.

Word problem city!

Here we see word problems of varying degrees of challenge. Email me if the explanations are not clear enough.

Word problems with rectangular modeling

Rectangular modeling is relied upon here.

Rectangular modeling is used here also.

A word problem involving Ratios and books.

The key to understanding this problem that was asked to the 9 year olds is a proper model. We use a rectangular modeling set up. In rectangular modeling we always use the smallest unit as the squares that make up the larger rectangles. In this case: Lina's original amount of books. Now, we must focus our attention on the fact that AFTER 24 books are purchased the amount Lina has is twice that of Suling. Suling had 2 rectangles in our original model. Hence Lina MUST have 4 rectangles in our new model as 4 is twice 2. we step back and look at the model. We notice that 3 small rectangles represent the 24 books. Hence the division.