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Unit 1
I wrote down a number with one zero in it, but I cannot remember what it was. I know it was between 500 and 800. What might it have been?
Place all the possible numbers in order from smallest to largest and explain how you knew the order.
Unit 2
For What's My Rule tables:
My mom works at a bakery. Every Monday she bakes cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
No matter how many cupcakes she bakes, she always sets 2 cupcakes aside to bring home for me to eat. All the other cupcakes are sold at the bakery.
Make a chart to help my mom figure out how many cupcakes were sold each Monday.
cupcakes baked |
cupcakes sold |
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What's the Rule?
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Lightly shade in squares that show one interesting pattern on the addition chart.
a. Explain in complete sentences all you know about the pattern you have found.
b. Explain in complete sentences why you think your pattern works.
c. Which addends did the sums come from?
d. Explain something else you have seen that reminds you of this pattern.
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Look at the addition table and the 100 grid chart.
e. Write about how they are alike and how they are different.
f. Now put your ideas into sentences that help others understand your thinking.
Unit 3
Pretend you have 16 feet of wire fencing to make a rabbit cage.
a. On a sheet of grid paper, draw models of the different shape cages you could make if you used all the fencing.
b. Label the area of the floor for each cage.
c. Circle the model you think would make the best cage for a rabbit.
d. Explain why you chose that one.
e. Which cage would give the rabbit the most room?
Unit 4
This is what happens when you save a nickel a day:
Nickels |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
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15 |
Pennies |
$.05 |
$.10 |
$.15 |
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a. Complete the chart above. Watch out for the last box, it's a challenge.
b. Use numbers, pictures and/or words to describe how you found the solution for 15 nickels.
c. Write a story problem about nickels and pennies that uses the chart above. Be sure your problem asks a question.
Unit 5
Using words and pictures, write sentences about the relationship between:
dollars |
dimes |
pennies |
flats |
longs |
units |
meters |
decimeters |
centimeters |
a. Explain how the base ten blocks and our money system are alike.
b. Explain how the units in the metric system are like our money system.
c. Show how to represent 0.26 with all three things: base ten blocks, money and metric units.
Unit 6
a. Explain in sentences how prisms are alike and how they are different.
b. Explain in sentences how spheres and cylinders are alike and how they are different.
c. Explain in sentences how prisms and cylinders are alike and how they are different.
d. Name something in the room that is like a prism, a cylinder and a sphere.
Unit 7
a. Fill in the products on the multiplication chart.
b. Lightly shade in squares that show an interesting pattern on the chart.
c. Explain in complete sentences the pattern that you found.
d. Explain in complete sentences why you think your pattern works.
e. Tell about another time you noticed this pattern.
Unit 8
a. Use pictures and numbers to show the fractional parts of each item listed in the left column.
one dollar |
picture for 1/4 of one dollar |
number for 1/4 of one dollar |
one dozen eggs |
picture for 1/4 of one dozen |
number for 1/4 of one dozen |
one hour |
picture for 1/4 of one hour |
number for 1/4 of one hour |
one package of 10 cookies |
picture for 1/4 of ten cookies |
number for 1/4 of ten cookies |
one class of 20 students |
picture for 1/4 of 20 students |
number for 1/4 of 20 students |
b. Choose one item from above and explain in complete sentences how you figured out the fractional part and the numbers.
Unit 9
There are no $100,000 bills in circulation.
a. Show how many of each type of bill you would need in order to buy an expensive car that costs $100,000.
how many: |
amount |
show your work |
$100 bills to make $100,000 |
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This is how I did it.
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$50 bills to make $100,000 |
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This is how I did it
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$20 bills to make $100,000 |
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This is how I did it.
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b. Do you notice a relationship between the amount of $100 bills, $50 bills and $20 bills?
Explain in complete sentences why this relationship exists.
What next? Keep thinking: How many $10 bills would you need? How many $5 bills would you need?
Unit 10
a. Find four containers that are different shapes but hold about the same amount.
b. Explain how you would find out which one holds the least and which holds the most.
c. Try out your ideas and write about what you found out.
Unit 11
A toy manufacturer wants to design a die where the chance of throwing "red" is 1/2.
a. Draw 2 different die designs that would work.
b. Explain in complete sentences why you chose the designs and how you know that the probability of getting red will be 1/2 .
c. What is the probability of getting the other colors?
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