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Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes Practice creating different shapes with the same ...

Description: Practice, reinforce or use this lesson as a formative assessment for measuring volume in cubic units.  In this lightly scripted, 60-90 minute lesson your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes
• Practice creating different shapes with the same volume
• Decompose shapes layer by layer to determine total volume
• Create a class volume museum
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.MD.4, MP1, MP2, & MP4

Skills: Work in collaborative partnerships Practice key math vocabulary Interpret whole number quotients as a number partitioned into equal shares Use real world examples to solve ...

Description: Bring the real world to your fraction lesson with this engaging, lightly scripted 1 hour lesson.  Working together with peers and practicing the "language" of math, your 3rd graders will:

• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Practice key math vocabulary
• Interpret whole number quotients as a number partitioned into equal shares
• Use real world examples to solve division problems
• Demonstrate their understanding of partitioning whole numbers into equal shares using pictorial representations
• Explain their understanding using an exit ticket to help inform your next instructional steps

CCSS: 3.OA.A.2, MP.6, SL.3.6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes Solve equations that involve decimals to the ...

Description: Need an introduction, review or formative assessment for solving equations with decimals?  This 1 hour engaging and lightly scripted lesson your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes
• Solve equations that involve decimals to the hundredth value using models and drawings
• Explain the methodology and reasoning and construct their own viable arguments for the answers
• Demonstrate their understanding of the process by playing a game "Equation Dash"
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.7, MP3, SL.5.4

Skills: Collaborate, use perseverance and attention to precision Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies (rounding with an explanation of "why") Make ...

Description: Use this engaging and interactive 1 hour lightly scripted lesson as a review or introduction to solving multi-step word problems.  Your 4th graders will:

• Collaborate, use perseverance and attention to precision
• Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies (rounding with an explanation of "why")
• Make sense of problems and use to solve them,
• Solve multi-step word problems with whole numbers using the 4 operations
• Determine and interpret remainders when needed
• Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.3, MP1, MP6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math and construct viable arguments Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator ...

Description: Practice using fractions with "real life" applications in this engaging 60-90 minute lesson.   Your 4th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math and construct viable arguments
• Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way
• Rename improper fractions as equivalent mixed numbers and reinforce their understanding by visually by modeling with mathematics
• Add mixed numbers with like denominators, e.g., by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NF4.3, Standards of Math Practices 3, 4

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics Practice representing fractions and ...

Description: With so many different fraction skills to teach in 4th grade, this 60-90 minute lesson supports your students to "talk" it out, and work together to practice converting fractions to decimals.  They will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
• Practice representing fractions and decimals greater than 1 as an improper fraction with its equivalent mixed number (ie: rewrite  6/10 as 0.6.)
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: NF.4.6, Standards of Math Practices 3, 4