3rd Grade Task: Birthday Party

3rd Grade Task: Birthday Party

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Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 
  • How are these strategies similar and different?
  • One student used the partition model to solve the problem. How is breaking the rectangle apart helpful in solving the problem? Is it possible to partition (break apart) either factor or both? Explain your thinking. 
  • What does each number represent in your equation?
  • What do you notice about the product and the dividend? Why are they the same in this problem?
  • When do you use multiplication to solve a problem? When do you use division to solve a problem?
  • What is the relationship between multipliction and division?

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Applying
Differentiation suggestions: 

If students cannot 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?

Advancing Questions:

  • How many brownie squares are in 1 pan? 2 pans?
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