Representing Half of a Rectangle
(View Complete Item Description)This task provides a context for indentifying different ways of representing half of a rectangle.
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Rounding to 50 or 500
(View Complete Item Description)Students practice rounding whole numbers with this task.
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Running Laps
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is for students to compare two fractions that arise in a context. Because the fractions are equal, students need to be able to explain how they know that.
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Running a Mile
(View Complete Item Description)This word problem asks students to think about fractions.
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Running to School
(View Complete Item Description)This task involves fraction multiplication and can be solved with pictures or number lines.
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S-ID.3 Describing Data Sets with Outliers
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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S-ID Measuring Variability in a Data Set
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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Salad Dressing
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is to have students add fractions with unlike denominators and divide a unit fraction by a whole number.
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Saving Money 1
(View Complete Item Description)In this challenging instructional task students relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money.
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Scratch 'n Win Blues
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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Seeing is Believing
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is to help students see that 4_(9+2) is four times as big as (9+2). Though this task may seem very simple, it provides students and teachers with a very useful visual for interpreting an expression without evaluating it.
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Shape Hunt Part 1
(View Complete Item Description)In this scavenger hunt game students practice copying shapes.
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Shape Hunt Part 2
(View Complete Item Description)In this scavenger hunt games students are given the task of finding and identifying real-world shapes in their environment.
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Shape Sequence Search
(View Complete Item Description)In this "word search" style puzzle students practice identifying sequences of shapes.
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Sharing Markers
(View Complete Item Description)Students gain experience and practice with three types of word problems using the "Take From" context: result unknown, change unknown, and start unknown.
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Sort and Count
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students become familiar with the math vocabulary more/less/same and most/least as they count and compare small groups.
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The Square Counting Shortcut
(View Complete Item Description)This is a rectangle subdivision task; ideally instead of counting each square. students should break the letters into rectangles, multiply to find the areas, and add up the areas. However, students should not be discouraged from using individual counting to start if they are stuck. Often students will get tired of counting and devise the shortcut method themselves.
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The Stamp Collection
(View Complete Item Description)This task uses language, "half of the stamps," that students in Grade 5 will come to associate with multiplication by the fraction 12. In Grade 3, many students will understand half of 120 to mean the number obtained by dividing 120 by 2. For students who are unfamiliar with this language the task provides a preparation for the later understanding that a fraction of a quantity is that fraction times the quantity.
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Start-Stop Counting
(View Complete Item Description)This counting activity allows students to practice counting in sequence.
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Sugar in Six Cans of Soda
(View Complete Item Description)This task provides a familiar context allowing students to visualize multiplication of a fraction by a whole number. This task could form part of a very rich activity which includes studying soda can labels.
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