Feb. 25th Session

Focus: Grade 3 - 5.

Grade 3

Big Ideas/Essential Understandings Related to Fractions

GFletcy - Fractions Progression Video

Fractions on the Number Line Activity (Video)

Slide Deck: Comparing Fractions

Comparing Fractions Strategies (template)

Using Bar Models to Make Equivalent Fractions

Silent Videos Folder

Grade 4

Interpreting Line Plots

• Handspan Activity

• Teacher Tell Me - Line Plot Activity Grade 4

• True or False Hold-Ups (Grades 4 and 5)

• Find the Fiction (a.k.a. Two Truths and a Lie)

• Analyzing NYS Released Items (Test-Savvy Question Category, Slide 183)

• Demo: What are the Choices?, What is the Question? Games (Points Template)

Understanding Mixed Numbers and Fractions Greater than One

• Hands-on/Minds-on: Using tools: Fraction Bars, Cuisenaire Rods, Snap/Unifix Cubes

• What does the denominator tell us about the whole? (Video for discussion)

• Co-Created Chart: Operations with Mixed Numbers on a Number Line, Using Number Bonds, Area Models

• Multiplying Fractions by a Whole Number

• Word Problems from K - 5 Math Teaching Resources - Grade 4 Math Centers Bundle

Protractors

• True/False Hold-Ups

• Protractor Online Assessment

• Vocabulary Tic Tac Toe

Grade 5

Conversions

• Naked Number Riddles (book - temporarily up)

• Strategies for Conversions:

  • Slide Deck - Grade 5

  • Slide Deck - Grade 4

• Show in Many Ways Sample Problems

• Conversions to Memorize

Volume

• Composite Figure Task

• Analysis of Volume of NYS Released Items Test-Savvy Question Category, Slide 207)

• 3-Acts Tasks from GFletchy - Questioning My Metacognition

  • Got Cubes

  • Packing Sugar

  • Overflow

  • The Fish Tank

• 3-Acts Task by Kyle Pearce and Friends

  • Soup du Jour

Testing Related Materials

• 2019 - 2020 Test Guidance