Year 1 Problem Solving with RICE

Today we spent time learning how to tackle word problems using RICE! We began by carefully reading the problem and identifying the important and helpful information. We learnt to recognise what ‘R’ stands for in a word problem.  R = Read and Record.

 We then read through a selection of addition and subtraction problems together.  We read, highlighted and identified what operation we needed to do to solve them.

 We worked like Maths Detectives…. What am I looking for?  Numbers?  Words? Which words are the important ones?

We finished the lesson highlighting some problems and identifying whether we needed to write ‘add’ or ‘take away’ when we worked through the ‘R’ for RICE.  We made a great start at tackling word problems today!