This vowel teams phonics and math resource was created to help young mathematicians AND growing readers practice mathematical problem-solving skills. Each of the 20 addition and subtraction story problems has been written to help students practice decoding skills, with a focus on these vowel team patterns: ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, ie, oa, oe, ue, and ui. So often, our young students are capable of solving mathematical word problems, but it is the text complexity that holds them back or decreases thei