140: Understanding Comparison Problems in Math

An episode of the Math Chat podcast, hosted by Mona Iehl, titled "140: Understanding Comparison Problems in Math" was published on April 7, 2025 and runs 17 minutes.

April 7, 2025 ·17m · Math Chat

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Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’re talking about comparison problems: what they are, why they’re tricky, and how we can help students build strategies to solve them. We’re gonna start today’s episode with a problem. Omar made 22 baskets during practice. He made 9 more baskets than Eli. How many baskets did Eli make? This is a comparison problem and there are 3 types of comparison problems we can use with students. And they are all hard! We are chatting about: Different typ...

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In today’s episode, we’re talking about comparison problems: what they are, why they’re tricky, and how we can help students build strategies to solve them.

We’re gonna start today’s episode with a problem. Omar made 22 baskets during practice. He made 9 more baskets than Eli. How many baskets did Eli make?

This is a comparison problem and there are 3 types of comparison problems we can use with students. And they are all hard!

We are chatting about: