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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

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: Compare the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor without performing the ...

Description: Have fun teaching, reinforcing or introducing the concept of "scaling" for your 5th graders.  In this lightly-scripted and engaging lesson they will:

• Compare the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor without performing the indicated multiplication
•  Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number (recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case)
• Practice sharing how and why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number
• Relate the principle of fraction equivalence a/b = (n × a)/(n b) to the effect of multiplying a/b by 1
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NF.5, MP2, MP4, MP8

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