Climbing the Word Problem Trails

Test abilities to gallop a racehorse through winding paths, climb a mountain cliff with jagged rocks, and ski the slopes of trails with newly fallen snow. CLIMBING THE WORD PROBLEM TRAILS allows the students to experience these adventures and more, while developing their abilities in understanding the steps that help them determine the answers to word problems. Reinforce the procedure for solving word problems with the 4 levels of difficulty built into this game appropriate for the earliest levels. Three types of problems are provided at each level: 1) determine the operation, 2) create an equation, 3) solve one and two-step problems.