How to use this sheet

  • Draw a bar model: one bar for the smaller amount, and the same bar repeated for "times as many."
  • Have the child say the comparison as a sentence before writing an equation.
  • Mix in a "more than" problem by hand and ask the child how it is different.

Common mistakes

  • Adding when the problem says "times as many", so 3 times as many as 4 becomes 7. Draw the bars.
  • Multiplying when the problem says "more than". "5 more than 4" is 9, not 20.
  • Putting the larger amount into the wrong part of the equation when the smaller one is missing.

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