In reading, evaluating, solving, and creating the problems incorporated in this unit student will be able to complete the following:
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Students will work comfortably and confidently within the real number system and operations.
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1.0.b. - Students will add, i.e. join things together, increase.
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1.0.d.
- Students will multiply, i.e. use repeated addition, count by multiples, combine things that come in groups.
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1.0.f. -
Students will analyze problem situations and contexts in order to figure out when to add, subtract, multiply and divide
5.2 -
Students will participate in the formulation of problems.
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5.2.a. - Students will make decisions about the approach, materials, and strategies to use.
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5.2.b. -
Students will use previously learned strategies, skills, knowledge, and concepts to make decisions.
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5.2.c. -
Students will use strategies, such as using manipulatives or drawing sketches, to model problems.
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5.2.e -
Students will extract pertinent information from situations and figure out what additional information is needed.
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Students will make the basic choices involved in planning and carrying out a solution.
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5.3c. - Students will solve problems in ways that make sense and explain why these ways make sense, e.g. defend the reasoning, and explain the solution.
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5.3.d. -
Students will write problems to a given number sentence.
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Students will move beyond a particular problem by making connections, extensions, and/or generalizations.
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5.4.a. - Students will explain a pattern that can be used in similar situations.
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5.4.b. -
Students will explain how the problem is similar to other problems they have solved.
