Activity Description
Title: WRITING NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS
Synopsis: This one or two day activity would occur early in a Unit on Algebra background, but students will use it several times through the year for standards 5.OA.1 and 5.OA.2. Students will represent a situation mathematically including parentheses:
(a) identify what they are trying to find;
(b) write an expression; and
(c)simplify the expression.
Lead-up Skills / Preassessment: Lead-up skills are listed to help teachers identify any missing readiness skills students may need to attempt the standards in this Activity.
Anchor Problem: at least one is provided for the chunk of standards; this should be posted and referred to during the instruction associated with those standards.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. These strategies include sample problems to guide authentic practice, requiring students to demonstrate they can construct meaning for themselves.
Problems for Practice: Standards-based problems are provided to use for different parts of the instruction, including on the practice work and assessments. These problems require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery.
Final Assessment: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include test items that reflect those used on the High Stakes Tests. There are practice problems leading up to this. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
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