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In This Task…
Students will determine the number of bird feeders that can be filled with 48 kg of birdseed.
Intentionality…
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Spark
What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?
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Estimation: Prompt
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Estimation: Reveal
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Sense Making
Crafting A Productive Struggle: Prompt
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During Moves
While Students Are Productively Struggling…
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Student Approach #1: Concrete Set Model and Making Groups of Three
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Student Approach #2: Array Using Skip Counting
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Student Approach #3: Open-Array Using Partial-Products
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Next Moves
Consolidation: Making Connections
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Reveal
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Reflect
Provide students an opportunity to reflect on their learning by offering this consolidation prompt to be completed independently.
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We suggest collecting this reflection as an additional opportunity to engage in the formative assessment process to inform next steps for individual students as well as how the whole class will proceed.
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Explore The Entire Unit of Study
This Make Math Moments Task was designed to spark curiosity for a multi-day unit of study with built in purposeful practice, and extensions to elicit and emerge mathematical models and strategies.
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Consolidation Prompt #1
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Consolidation Prompt #2
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