Use Your Math Power
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Use Your Math Power
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Description
Do some of your students tend to take over in a math discussion and not listen to others? Do other students have trouble making their thoughts heard when they work in groups?
In this Readers’ Theater, students see children learning to work together more cooperatively, giving everyone a chance to share their thinking so they all see themselves growing in math. As your students take on the roles in this script, they will see strategies they can use to find equivalent fractions. The script helps them see ways to use number lines, paper folding and knowledge about unit fractions to find equivalent fractions.
There are 19 parts in this Readers' Theater.
Total Pages
7 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS3.NF.A.3
Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.
CCSS3.NF.A.3a
Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.
CCSS3.NF.A.3b
Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, (e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3). Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
CCSS3.NF.A.3d
Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
CCSSMP1
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.
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