Teaching Comparison Problems Using Strip Diagrams

It’s my day to blog over at Upper Elementary Snapshots!  Check out today’s post all about teaching COMPARISON PROBLEMS…and how important it is to help students really dig deeply into their problem solving.  I hope you get some helpful tips!  Whether you call them comparison problems, tape diagrams, or strip diagrams–these problems can really helps students “make sense” of problems.

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Meg