2nd Grade Task: Apples for the Fall Festival

2nd Grade Task: Apples for the Fall Festival

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Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 
  • How are these strategies similar and different? (Use Accountable Talk to ask students to compare strategies.)
  • One student used adding on strategy and another decomposed the numbers into tens to solve the problem. 
  • How are these strategies helpful in solving these problems? Explain your thinking.
  • What does each number represent in your equation? (Relate numbers back to the model.)
  • When do you use addition to solve a problem? When do you use subtraction to solve a problem?
  • Does it matter in which order the numbers are added and subtracted? Explain your thinking.
  • What is the relationship between addition and subtraction?

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding
Differentiation suggestions: 

If students can’t get started….

Assessing Questions:

  • How can you state the problem in your own words?
  • What are you trying to find or do?
  • What information do you need to solve the problem?
  • What model could you draw to help you solve the problem?

 

Extension suggestions: 

If students finish early….

Assessing Questions:

  • Does your solution make sense when you look at the original problem?
  • Is it reasonable? Explain your thinking.

Advancing Questions:

  • Is there another way of finding the solution?
Originator: 
Tennessee Department of Education