Help your students solve problems using the four operations with a pack of printable strip diagrams anchor charts.
What are Strip Diagrams? Tape Diagrams? Bar Models?
Are your students struggling with problem-solving? Help them get back on track with the help of strip diagrams. The strip diagram is a handy visual model that can help your students solve problems with known and unknown quantities. These diagrams go by a few names, such as bar models, tape diagrams, fraction strips, length models, or part-part-whole models. But no matter what you call them, they’re a great tool to put in your students’ problem-solving toolboxes.
Printable Problem-Solving Anchor Charts
Use this resource when teaching your students how to problem solve using strips diagrams (a.k.a. bar models). This method is especially useful for those students who respond better to visual stimuli such as pictures, drawings, or graphic organizers.
The pack illustrates the five basic variations and includes examples of how to apply them to different operations.
Print off a pack for each student to keep in their math folder to reference throughout the year. Or as an alternative, project each poster on the board as you teach each variation.
Download Your Strip Diagram – Bar Model Anchor Charts
This set of strip diagrams / bar model anchor charts is available in two easy-to-use formats. Click the dropdown arrow to choose between the printable PDF resource file and the editable Google Slides resource. Download, print or project, and go!
This resource was created by Brittany Collins, a teacher in Indiana and Teach Starter collaborator.
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