This is especially helpful for those tricky comparison word problems. If it is a comparison word problem, I want students to read back through and figure out who has more. That is the whole. So we label the whole with that person’s initial. That means the other person has less, so we are going to label a part their initial. Then we can read back through and fill in the numbers of the part-part-whole diagram. From there, students can see if they should add or subtract. It was a game changer once