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A lesson plan for Grades 3–5 Mathematics
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- Appropriate grades
- 3–5
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- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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In this lesson, one of a five-part unit from Illuminations titled “Numbers and Language,” students participate in activities in which they focus on the role of numbers and language in the real-world. After previously investigating numbers in a variety of real-life situations, students find examples of the use of numbers (whole numbers and fractions) in the home and complete a parent-child activity sheet at home.
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 1.05: Use area or region models and set models of fractions to explore part-whole relationships.
- Represent fractions concretely and symbolically (halves, fourths, thirds, sixths, eighths).
- Compare and order fractions (halves, fourths, thirds, sixths, eighths) using models and benchmark numbers (zero, one-half, one); describe comparisons.
- Model and describe common equivalents, especially relationships among halves, fourths, and eighths, and thirds and sixths.
- Understand that the fractional relationships that occur between zero and one also occur between every two consecutive whole numbers.
- Understand and use mixed numbers and their equivalent fraction forms.
- Objective 1.05: Use area or region models and set models of fractions to explore part-whole relationships.
Grade 4
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.03: Solve problems using models, diagrams, and reasoning about fractions and relationships among fractions involving halves, fourths, eighths, thirds, sixths, twelfths, fifths, tenths, hundredths, and mixed numbers.
Grade 5
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will understand and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency in adding and subtracting non-negative rational numbers (halves, fourths, eighths; thirds, sixths, twelfths; fifths, tenths, hundredths, thousandths; mixed numbers).
- Develop and analyze strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.
- Estimate sums and differences.
- Judge the reasonableness of solutions.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency in adding and subtracting non-negative rational numbers (halves, fourths, eighths; thirds, sixths, twelfths; fifths, tenths, hundredths, thousandths; mixed numbers).
