6th Grade Task: Math Competition

6th Grade Task: Math Competition

6th Grade Task: Math Competition

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions:

Whole Group Questions:

Can someone explain to the class where Tommy made his mistake?
Which math skills does this task address?
What does a variable represent in an expression?
Could we have chosen to use a variable for another part of the problem?
How does using a variable, affect the answer in an expression?

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level:

Understanding

Differentiation suggestions:

Entry/Extensions:

Assessing and Advancing Questions

If students can’t get started….

Assessing:

What does the problem say?
What information is the problem giving me?
What could I do to help me organize or set up the problem?

Advancing:

Can you make a table to organize the information?
Which tool would you like to use to organize this information to compare the rates, a table or graph? Why?

If students finish early….

Advancing:

If a bus will hold a maximum of 72 people, what is the maximum amount of teams that could ride on the bus?
Can you write a general equation to represent this?

Originator:

Tennessee Department of Education

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