2nd Grade Task: Froggy Falls in a Well

2nd Grade Task: Froggy Falls in a Well

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Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 
  • Can you make a number sentence that would match this problem? 
  • What would it look like?
  • Are there other ways to represent this problem?
  • Can you make a number sentence that would match this problem? 
  • What would it look like?
  • Are there other ways to represent this problem?
  • How can you show the distance Froggy slips back after each jump?
  • How can you represent the jumps differently than the slips?
  • Can you make a general rule for this problem and the extension problems?
  • Are there other ways to represent this problem?
  • Can we make a number sentence that would match this problem? 
  • What would it look like?

 

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding
Differentiation suggestions: 

If students can’t get started…
Assessing Questions:

  • What do the numbers in the problem represent?
  • What is the problem asking you to find?
  • Advancing Questions:
  • Can you draw a number line to represent the jumps Froggy made?
  • How can you represent the jumps differently than the slips? 

 

Extension suggestions: 

If students finish early…
Extension:

  • What if Froggy was stronger and only slipped back 1 foot each hour?
  • How long would it take him to get out of the well?
  • What if Froggy only jumped 3 feet each time and slipped back the original 2 feet?
  • What if Froggy only jumped 3 feet each time and slipped back the 3 feet?
  • What would happen?
Originator: 
Tennessee Department of Education