Age word problems

The  exercise appears under the 8th Grade Math Mission. This exercise practices the set up and solving of linear equations as related to age specific problems.

Types of Problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:


 * 1) Find the solution to the age word problem: This problem provides a word problem in which several peoples' ages are related to one another. The student is expected to find the age of a particular person in the problem and write the answer in the space provided.Awp1.png

Strategies
Some skills and knowledge that could be useful on this exercise would include an ability to translate from English into math and an ability to solve equations by substitution. Other methods could be utilized also, such as elimination or graphing.
 * 1) Most of the translations lend themselves nicely to substitution methods of solving equations.

Real-life applications

 * 1) These types of problems are easily extendable to other applications such as distant, rate and time in physics and simple interest equations in business.