Unit |
Essential Questions |
Knowledge |
Methods |
Purpose |
Forms |
Unit 8 - Mapping Coordinates
(Week 1, 2 Weeks) |
- How do I use a map?
- What is a scale map?
- How is a scale map useful?
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- Coordinates
- Scale maps
- Predictions of length
- Checking predictions
- Length in nonstandard units
- Length in centimeters and feet
- Addition and subtraction to make 10
- Subtraction facts review and assessment: Groups 3 & 4
- Multiplication strategies for the 2s, 5s, and 10s
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- Locate an object using Mr. Origin coordinates
- Measure two coordinates of an object, first using footsteps and then rulers
- Use a scale map to answer some questions about distances
- Re-create a similar configuration
- Play a game that uses coordinates
- Build a tiny TIMS town on desks
- Record the coordinates of buildings and draw a map using the coordinates
- Use a map to predict distances
- Read a book about map reading
- Play a card game, adding and subtracting numbers to make ten
- Complete a series of word problems
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- To understand how to use a map
- To understand what a scale map is
- To understand how a scale map is useful
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- Discussions
- Explanations
- Interpretation of a data table
- Choice of appropriate tools and methods to calculate
- Measurements in non-standard units
- Measurements in centimeters and feet
- Maps
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Unit 1 - Sampling and Classifying
(Week 2, 2 Weeks) |
- What are ways to gather, organize, graph and analyze data?
- What are appropriate ways to work cooperatively (collaboratively)?
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- TIMS Laboratory Method
- Variables and Values
- Classification
- Multiple solution strategies
- Problem-solving solutions
- Bar graphs
- Samples
- Predictions
- Logical reasoning
- Addition facts review
- Cooperation - working in groups
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- Gather, organize, graph and analyze data about the length of first names.
- Do mental computation while playing a simple game.
- Take a sample and make predictions using the TIMS Laboratory Method.
- Design and solve puzzles.
- Discuss the difference between cooperative learning and cheating.
- Work together to arrive at solutions.
- Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction.
- Represent the elements of a laboratory investigation in a drawing.
- Make predictions based on data.
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- To understand the TIMS Laboratory Method
- To understand the differences between cooperation and cheating
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- Discussions
- Explanations
- Drawings
- Bar graphs
- Predictions
- Multiple strategies
- Sorted and classified objects
- Identified variables and values
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Unit 2 - Strategies: Assessment Unit
(Week 4, 3 Weeks) |
- What is problem solving?
- What are different strategies for solving problems?
- What are different means of communicating reasoning?
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- Addition and subtraction facts
- Subtraction facts for Groups 1 and 2
- Number sense
- Origin of magic squares
- Magic squares
- Data collection, organization, and graphs
- Bar graphs
- Graph interpretation
- Student Rubric: Knowing
- Problem-solving solutions
- Assessment of problem solving
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- Partition numbers
- Rearrange addends
- Use strategies with addition facts
- Spin two spinners to randomly generate addition sentences
- Record facts in data tables
- Graph the number of times they spin and each sum
- Listen to the story Yu the Great: A Chinese Legend
- Solve magic squares
- Review subtraction facts through the use of strategies
- Spin two spinners and randomly generate subtraction sentences to find the most common difference
- Use Subtraction Flash Cards and the Subtraction Facts I Know chart as a means of self-assessment
- Solve word problems given a list of items and prices
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- To understand problem-solving
- To understand different strategies for solving problems
- To communicate mathematical reasoning
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- Discussions
- Explanations
- Bar graphs
- Predictions
- Knowing Rubric
- Interpretations of bar graphs
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Unit 3 - Exploring Multiplication
(Week 6, 2 Weeks) |
- What is multiplication?
- How does multiplication help us in the world?
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- Multiplication as repeated addition
- Partitioning
- Multiplication fact strategies for 2's and 3's
- Subtraction facts for groups 3 and 4
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- Use data from Unit 1
- Solve problems about decorating T-shirts with first names
- Make lists and write multiplication problems
- Investigate patterns
- Write multiplication stories
- Illustrate with pictures multiplication problems
- Use manipulatives
- Use counters as a model
- Partition the number of students in a class into teams of equal size
- Write number sentences
- Translate dates on the calendar into number sentences that involve a product and a remainder
- Work on word problems involving multiplication and division
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- To understand that multiplication creates a shortcut and a faster calculation than repeated addition
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- Models
- Multiplication stories
- Discussions
- Explanations
- Unit assessments
- Bar graphs
- Photographs of manipulatives as representations
- Drawings
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