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| Food Drive: | A data table is given listing class donations to a food drive. Students interpret the data and answer questions using addition and subtraction. Students discuss the importance of, volunteerism and ways that they can help their community. |
| Rampin' It Up: | Students will use their knowledge of properties of materials and measurement of length to determine how the properties of different surfaces affect the distance traveled by a toy car. |
| DOLO - Dinosaurs Only Live Once?: | During this activity, students will create an incubator to save the last dinosaur eggs. Students will use their knowledge of energy to develop a strategy and choose which materials would be best for their dinosaur egg incubator. |
| Cheezy Arrays: | This lesson is a hands-on activity that includes multiplication using arrays. The lesson also serves as a great transition from repeated addition to multiplication. |
| Astounding Addition: | Students will solve real-world addition problems within 1,000 using strategies and an algorithm and justify their solutions. |
| Tens, Tens, and More Tens: | In this lesson, students will practice using various strategies for multiplying one digit numbers by multiples of ten. |
| “Shoot for the Stars to Introduce Multiplication”: | Students will learn how multiplication is related to repeated addition and use different strategies to find the product of equal groups situations. |
| Each Orange Had 8 Slices: Multiplying Equal Groups: | Students will learn how to represent and count equal groups through the use of literature and situational story problems. Using the book Each Orange Had 8 Slices, students will use manipulatives to find the total number of objects in a collection of equal groups. Students will learn to write corresponding multiplication equations. |
| How many Circles? How many Stars?: | “How many Circles? How many Stars?” is an activity that will give students a visual representation of multiplication. It will also help students see multiplication as the combining of equal-size groups that can be represented with a multiplication equation. |
| "Amazing Race-Elapsed Time": | In this lesson, which focuses specifically on the elapsed time portion of the standard, students work in small groups in a "race" to solve real world problems involving time. |
| From Array to Van De Walle 100-Dot Matrix: | This lesson builds upon student knowledge of arrays to using the Van de Walle 100-Dot Matrix model to solve multiplication problems involving rows and columns. |
| Bridging Multiplication with Word Problems: | This introductory lesson uses word problems to help students make connections between arrays and multiplication with single and two-digit factors within 100. |
| The Array Frame, your best friend: | In this lesson, students will learn to use the structure of array frames to build familiarity and fluency with the array as a tool. Students will explore multiplication by solving several multiplication word problems involving rows and columns situations using the array as a representation. |
| Rockin' Road Trip MEA: | In this model-eliciting activity (MEA), students will work together to determine the best bus for a class trip. Students will be able to decide between several buses with varying capabilities and costs while practicing their application of multiplying one-digit whole numbers by a multiple of ten. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Circles and Stars: | This is an introductory lesson to prepare students to move from using repeated addition to using multiplication to represent equal groups situations. |
| Reading is Fun!: | In this MEA, students will work in groups to rank books using the following criteria: price, genre, number of pages, reading level and a summary provided for each book. The students must calculate the price for a class set of each book by multiplying each price by 20 students. There is a budget of $100. Students are then given a new budget and a new criteria and asked to re-evaluate their decision. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Peace Love Baseball: | Batter Up!!! Help the Peace Love Baseball Championship find a home!!! In this interactive Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA), the students will successfully multiply one digit whole numbers by multiples of 10. The students will also work collaboratively to express their opinions, while considering those of their peers. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Let's Think in Small Units: | In this lesson students will make and complete tables to express larger unit measurements in terms of a smaller unit within one system of units. They will use the chart to make comparisons and explain their reasoning. |
| Zero on a Hero (Exploring the Zero Property of Multiplication): | Students will explore the Zero Property of Multiplication using array and equal-group models for multiplication. Students will model story problems, translate problems into multiplication facts, and identify patterns in a set of multiplication facts to develop understanding of the Zero Property of Multiplication. |
| One with a Bun (Exploring the Multiplicative Identity Property of 1): | In this lesson students will explore the Multiplicative Identity Property of 1, using array and equal-group models for multiplication. Students will model story problems, translate problems into multiplication equations, and identify patterns in a set of multiplication facts to develop understanding of the Multiplicative Identity Property of 1. |
| Let's Multiply using Groups and Arrays: | In this lesson, students will use pictures in arrays and groups to write multiplication story problems, write an equation, solve the problem, and identify the factors and products. |
| Product Productions: | The lesson uses a movie making theme to teach the characteristics and purpose of arrays, as well as the vocabulary, factor and product. |
| Just Group It: | Students will be able to use counters to create equal groups and write multiplication equations to represent these representations. |
| Multiply by Multiples of 10 with Number Cubes: | In this lesson students will use various strategies to multiply one-digit numbers by multiples of 10 within the range of 10-90. The strategies will encompass the Distributive, Commutative, and Associative properties, place value, number lines, base-ten blocks, diagrams, hundreds chart. Students will play a game with number cubes to practice this multiplication. |
| Dining Dilemma!: | The students will compare different nutritional content of chicken nuggets from many restaurants. They will factor in the calories, the total fat, saturated fat, and sodium levels in the nuggets to rank the nuggets from healthiest to least healthy. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Kites for Education MEA: | Kites for Education is a Modeling Eliciting Activity which presents students with an engineering challenge in which they must analyze data sets and develop a procedure for ranking different kite models. The product ranked as best by the students will hypothetically be sold to customers and the profit used to purchase school textbooks and supplies for school age children impacted by Haiti's devastating earthquake. |
| Jumping Beans: Adding with Open Number Lines: | Students will use the open number line as a strategy to add within 1,000. The lesson begins with a formative assessment that evaluates students' strategies for efficiently solving addition sentences within 1,000. In order for students to have practice reinforcing the skill, students will complete the guided practice with open number lines, as well as playing the game, Jumping Beans. To conclude the lesson, students will evaluate a solution to an open number line problem. |
| Arrays Show the Way to the Multiplication Chart: | This is an introductory lesson to explore the use of arrays to solve multiplication problems. Students build arrays and save the arrays in a class Multiplication Chart. They learn to use arrays to find products and factors, and by placing them in the Multiplication Chart, they learn how to read the chart. They learn how to write equations to represent situations that are modeled with arrays. An overall theme is the organization of the multiplication chart and how it includes arrays within. |
| Hungry Zero: | The definition of the Zero Property of Multiplication will be analyzed, modeled and practiced. |
| Giddy Up, Round Up: Relating Division to Multiplication: | In this lesson, students will learn to solve division problems by relating them to multiplication facts. Practice materials focus on the 6's and 8's multiplication facts. |
| Great Estimations!: | In this lesson, students will deepen their knowledge of using equal groups in multiplication and their ability to visualize the quantity of an item in a given object. They will use problem-solving skills and see the value in using benchmarks. |
| Efficient Multiplication: | Students will engage with questions to evaluate the students' abilities to select and apply multiplication strategies with fluency and efficiency. The focus of the lesson is decomposing numbers to multiply using the Distributive property and understanding and applying the Commutative property. Then, students will reinforce decomposing of factors while playing Decomposition of Factors. The lesson concludes with a real world application problem on an Exit Slip. |
| Subtraction Attraction: | In this lesson, students will demonstrate fluency in using a standard algorithm to complete story problems involving subtraction with regrouping using multi-digit whole numbers. |
| Rip and Regroup to Add: | Students will learn how to transpose a horizontal addition equation with two-digit addends using a specialized vertical place value work mat. Students will "rip and regroup" to help understand how to regroup ten ones as one ten and move toward using a standard algorithm for addition. |
| Pet Store Partitive Division: | In this lesson students will model partitive division through the real-world activity of a pet store owner. |
| Chip Chip Array!: | Students work together to create arrays to represent given numbers. |
| Array to Multiply: | In this lesson, students will understand the concept of arrays and will be able to create/draw an array for multiplication sentences. Engaging center game is used to help students with concrete visual representation of multiplication sentences. |
| Tasty Algebra: Using toasted O cereal to find the missing factor in a multiplication equation.: | In this lesson students will use Cheerios to solve multiplication equations relating 3 whole numbers from word problems that include missing factors ranging from one through ten. Students will also argue the validity of multiplication equations that include missing factors and products with corresponding word problems. |
| Amazing Arrays: | This is a hands-on lesson for introducing and practicing building arrays to create models that represent the distributive property of multiplication, and then using those arrays to draw models of the equations they represent. |
| Apples, Oranges, and Bananas of Math?: | In this lesson, the students will work in independently or in small groups to write equations to represent situations as well as their own math riddles around the concepts of multiplication. The teacher will use the book, The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang, to support this lesson. |
| Area Isn't Just for Squares: | This lesson helps students make the connections between area and multiplication using square tiles. |
| Decoding Decomposing {Adding two 3-digit Numbers}: | Students will add 3-digit numbers by decomposing them by place value. It is a useful lesson to reinforce place value concepts when adding. |
| How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?: | In this hands-on math exploration, students will use knowledge of estimation and multiplication to develop strategies for estimating how many seeds are in a medium-sized pumpkin. |
| Magnificent, Amazing Multiplication Arrays!: | In this lesson students will be creating, describing, and analyzing arrays as they relate to multiplication. In addition, they will be working on hands on activities that allow them to justify their answers and prove their reasoning. |
| Way Too Much!: | In this lesson, students will learn that in some word problems too much information is given. They will learn to identify what information is needed to solve a single digit multiplication problem and what is "additional information" or way too much! With this information, they will represent their answers using arrays and explain their thinking. This is a good lesson to use after students have become comfortable with multiplication and prior to introducing multi-step problems. |
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