A couple days after introducing word problems I found that my firsties were making weird mistakes. It wasn't that they didn't understand the questions, they were mis-reading or guessing the number words!
I felt SO bad that I'd accidentally set them for failure...woops!
So, I made these handy-dandy cheat sheets! I gave them to all my kids so no one felt picked on, they had a blast coloring them in and now they keep in with their math books and refer to them as and when needed.
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