A.

Clauses and Relevant Information Provided in the Word Problem

Clause Relevant Information Provided
Mr. Torres sold a total of 30 boxes of
sports cards at his store on Monday.
Who? = Mr. Torres
What did he do? = sold
What? = sport cards
How many? = 30 boxes
When? = Monday
These boxes contained only baseball
cards and football cards.

What? = These [30 boxes]
What is inside the boxes? = sport cards
What kind of cards? = football and baseball
Each box contained 25 sports cards. What? = box
What is inside each box? = sport cards
How many in each box? = 25
He earned $3 for each sports card he
sold.
Who? = He [Mr. Torres]
What did he do? = earned
How much? = $3
For what? = for each sport cards he sold

He earned a total of $1134 from the
football cards he sold.
Who? = He [Mr. Torres]
What did he do? = earned
How much? = $1134
From doing what? = selling only the
football cards





B. Information Provided and Mathematical Concepts in the Word Problem

Information Provided Mathematical Concepts
Clause 1: Mr. Torres sold a total of 30
boxes of sports cards at his store on
Monday.
Number of boxes = 30
These boxes contained only baseball
cards and football cards.

These boxes = 30

Each box contained 25 sports cards. One box = 25 cards
He earned $3 for each sports card he
sold.
One card sold = $3
He earned a total of $1,134 from the only
football cards he sold.
Total money earned = $1,134





C. Information Provided, Mathematical Concepts, and Mathematical Representations
and Procedures in the Word Problem

Information Provided Mathematical
Concepts
Mathematical Representations
and Procedures
Mr. Torres sold a total of
30 boxes of sports cards at
his store on Monday.
Number of boxes =
30
30 boxes
These boxes contained
only baseball cards and
football cards.

These boxes = 30
baseball cards
and football cards
Each box contained 25
sports cards.
Each box = 1
Number of cards =
25
1 x 25 = 25
30 x 25 = 750 cards
He earned $3 for each
sports card he sold.
Each sport card = 1
Money earned = $3
1 x $3 = $3
750 cards
750 x $3 = $2,250

He earned a total of
$1,134 from the football
cards he sold.
Total money earned
from football cards
sold = $1,134

Total money earned from selling
football and baseball cards =
$2,250

Money earned from selling
football card = $1,134

$2,250 $1, 134 = $1,116
Money earned from selling
baseball cards = $1,116