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Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions & multiplication, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively Make sense of problems and persevere ...

Description: Practice, review or introduce multiplication of fractions by whole numbers with this engaging and scripted 1 hour lesson.  Multiple opportunities to practice with different strategies and partners helps to solidify your students understanding of the "why" of this process.  Your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions & multiplication, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction
• Using pictures, number lines and repeated addition to multiply fractions by whole numbers
• Using number lines to multiply fractions by whole numbers
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NF.4, MP1, MP2, MP4, MP6, MP8

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in cubic units, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively Create solid shapes using counting ...

Description: Explore volume in a concrete and interactive way with this 1 hour lesson.  Use this lesson as an introduction, review or formative assessment.  In this 1 hour scripted lesson, your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in cubic units, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively
• Create solid shapes using counting cubes with specific volumes.
• Calculate volume of a shape by counting cubes.
• Practice volume creation and calculations (stacking cubes and creating landmarks or buildings using cubes)
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.MD.3, MP1, MP2, & MP4

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively Practice using the area model, repeated subtraction and ...

Description: Practice, review or introduce the concept of area model division with this interactive and scripted 1 hour lesson.  Your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively
• Practice using the area model, repeated subtraction and mental math to find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors
• Demonstrate their understanding of these skills by playing a game to create and solve problems in teams
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6, MP7, & MP8

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Solve real-life word problems Identify and write ...

Description: Fractions get much more complicated in 4th grade....denominators now have 100!  Help your students practice the "language" of math in strategic partnerships and groups with this scripted lesson (60-90 minutes).  They will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Solve real-life word problems
• Identify and write fraction/decimal amounts using visual models (number lines and shaded grids)
• Apply these skills to real world applications utilizing meters, decimal and money amounts
• feature measuring with meters and connecting decimal amounts to money amounts. Tasks feature partner work, group work, and independent problem solving
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NF.6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes Practice finding whole-number quotients of whole numbers ...

Description: Long division can be challenging for our 5th graders...the more opportunities they have to practice with partners and explain their thinking helps build a strong and solid sense of number.  Your students will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes
• Practice finding whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors
• Use strategies based on mental models, equations, rectangular arrays, properties of operations, and/or area models to solve problems
• Demonstrate what they understand of long division using the  standard algorithm
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Practice subtracting fractions using number lines, grids ...

Description: Grab this lesson for more explicit practice adding improper/proper fractions and mixed numbers using different strategies.  In this 60-90 minute lessons, your 4th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
• Practice subtracting fractions using number lines, grids and puzzle models in order to model with mathematics
• Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way
• Solve real world tasks involving subtraction of like fractions
• Rename improper fractions as equivalent mixed numbers
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NF.3