Bar Modeling - Mario Maths Blocks

I designed this worksheet to review the basic methods of bar modeling and used blocks from the Super Mario games to add a little more interest for the children.

The worksheet is split into four parts. Each has a question, a bar model and a space for the children to do their working and answer underneath. All the questions are also Mario related and use relatively simple and round numbers.

The objective is to encourage children to use bar modeling so they can help visualise what is required in a word problem, ultimately to help them choose the correct operation and solve the problem.

Here are the four parts and the required operations for each…
a) Part-part whole (addition)
b) Comparison (subtraction)
c) Equal Parts of a whole (multiplication)
d) Equal Parts of a whole (division)

It’s worth following up each model with children drawing their own for another example question.

Please note that this worksheet is a fully editable document, so you can change any of the questions. And with some basic table editing skills, you can change the bar models by copying and pasting the different blocks where you need them.