This document is an IWCS 6th grade math packet that discusses solving word problems. It addresses reading word problems carefully, key words that indicate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It then provides an example word problem about a boy named Dean who mows lawns and spends money each week. The problem is calculating how much money Dean has left over each week after getting $20 for mowing lawns and spending $7.25 on a movie, $2.61 on candy and $3.67 on soda. The document shows the step-by-step work and solution to the word problem.

1. Solving
Word
Problems
IWCS 6th Grade math packet pages 27-29
PAGE 1

2. Read word
problems
carefully to
ensure you
know what the
problem is
asking for.
PAGE 2

3. What are key
words that
indicate
addition?
PAGE 3

4. What are key
words that
indicate
subtraction?
PAGE 4

5. What are key
words that
indicate
multiplication?
PAGE 5

6. What are key
words that
indicate
division?
PAGE 6

7. PAGE 7

8. Each week Dean
gets $20 for
mowing the
grass. Each
week he spends
$7.25 for a
movie, $2.61 for
candy and $3.67
for soda. How
much money
does he have left
over each week?
PAGE 8

9. Each week Dean
gets $20 for
mowing the
grass. Each
week he spends
$7.25 for a
movie, $2.61 for
candy and $3.67
for soda. How
much money
does he have left
over each week?
PAGE 9

10. Each week Dean
gets $20 for
mowing the
grass. Each
week he spends
$7.25 for a
movie, $2.61 for
candy and $3.67
for soda. How
much money
does he have left
over each week?
PAGE 10

11. Each week Dean
gets $20 for
mowing the
grass. Each
week he spends
$7.25 for a
movie, $2.61 for
candy and $3.67
for soda. How
much money
does he have left
over each week?
PAGE 11
7.25
2.61
+ 3.67
$13.53
20.00
-13.53
$6.47

12. PAGE 12
20.00
- 6.47
$13.53
Each week Dean
gets $20 for
mowing the
grass. Each
week he spends
$7.25 for a
movie, $2.61 for
candy and $3.67
for soda. How
much money
does he have left
over each week?
13.53
- 7.25
6.28
- 2.61
$3.67