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Beverage sharing and serving

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A lesson plan for Grade 3 Mathematics

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Appropriate grades
3
Subjects
mathematics (applied mathematics, arithmetic, number sense, number theory)
Provider
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Students determine, using a nonstandard cup or plastic drinking container, the minimum amount of fruit drink needed to serve class members. Illuminations provides an activity sheet and detailed instructions for completing the lesson.

Students will:

  • Utilize problem solving skills, measuring techniques, and food preparation experiences to practice various math concepts.
  • Determine, using a nonstandard cup or plastic drinking container, the minimum amount of fruit drink needed to serve class members.

NCTM Standards and Expectations:

  • Recognize equivalent representations for the same number and generate them by decomposing and composing numbers.
  • Understand various meanings of multiplication and division.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 3

  • Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will model, identify, and compute with whole numbers through 9,999.
    • Objective 1.03: Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using:
      • Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.
      • Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations.
      • Relationships between operations.
    • Objective 1.04: Use basic properties (identity, commutative, associative, order of operations) for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
    • Objective 1.06: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.