Scripture: Daniel 5
Learning Objectives:
- Students will learn God expects everyone on earth to worship and obey Him.
- Students will learn God will not allow other gods or religions to replace what He has given us.
- Students will learn God sometimes gives earthly consequences for rejecting Him.
- Students will learn how to solve multistep word problems.
Guiding Question: How can multistep word problems be solved?
Materials: Word problems from links in Procedure section for practice, paper, pencils
Procedure: Tell students the story of the writing on the wall. Point out to students that the writing meant nothing to the king until Daniel told him what it meant. Explain to students that the Bible was not originally written in English. Ask students if they know what those three languages were. Explain that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the New Testament was written in Greek with some Aramaic and Hebrew. The other reason the Bible is sometimes hard to understand is that it uses words we don’t use in our every day conversations. So even though we hear words like “faith” and “salvation” at church, we may not hear them many other places. We may even think we know what they mean, but if we can explain them in our own words, then we probably don’t really understand what they mean.
Introduce the activity. Teach the basics for decoding a word problem with more than one equation.
-Multistep Word Problems:
https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Multistep.php
https://www.math-aids.com/Word_Problems/
Additional Questions: How can students develop a strong understanding of how to solve multistep word problems?
Supplemental Activity: Have the students create their own real-world multistep word problems and teach a partner/small group how to solve the problems.