Introduction -- Topic 1: Numbers getting bigger -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding addition problems -- Understanding addition problems -- Addition draw-it -- Addition fill-in -- Addition pick-the-question -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding multiplication problems -- Understanding multiplication problems -- Visual organizer: comparing addition and multiplication -- Multiplication fill-in -- Topic 2: Numbers getting smaller -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding subtraction problems -- Understanding subtraction problems -- Subtraction pick-the-question -- Subtraction fill-in -- Equation matching -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding division problems -- Understanding division problems -- Division fill-in -- Division pick-the-question -- Understanding "each" problems -- Topic 3: Pieces and groups -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding fraction problems -- Understanding fraction problems -- Fraction answer or number answer? -- Fraction picture/problem matching -- Topic 4: One step at a time -- Strategy lesson: Reading and understanding two-step problems -- Understanding two-step problems -- Operation identification -- Two-step fill-in -- Topic 5: Words, not numbers -- Strategy lesson: Word problems with word answers -- Understanding word-answer problems -- Think about the answer! -- Topic 6: Reading test items -- Strategy lesson: Extended-response problem reading -- Amy, the eraser ace -- Yolanda's garden area -- Spinning sarah -- Topic 7: Word problem structure -- Strategy lesson: Creating word problems -- Word problem info hunt -- Highligher hunt -- Story starters -- Picture problems -- Scrambled sentences -- Scrambled pictures -- Mastery activities -- Equation matching -- Matching the equation to the situation -- What's the equation? -- Beginning to end -- What's missing? -- Activity -- Mixed word problems -- Activity -- Mix-a-story -- Write your own! -- Activity -- Whole-class and small-group games and activities -- Answers.