Eat your veggies: Looking back and moving forward
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A lesson plan for Grades 3–4 Mathematics
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- Appropriate grades
- 3–4
- Subjects
- healthful living (nutrition)
- Provider
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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In this lesson, the final of an eight-part unit from Illuminations titled “Eat Your Veggies,” students display what they have learned about data representation. This lesson is referenced in the Illuminations unit plan titled “Eat Your Veggies” and is connected to the Illuminations lessons titled “Tally Time,” “Can You Picture It?,” “Healthy Eating,” “What Is Your Favorite?,” “Let's Compare,” “Alphabet Soup,” “Glyphs for all Reasons.”
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 1.03: Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using:
- Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
- Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including circle graphs and tables) to solve problems.
Grade 4
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency with multiplication and division:
- Two-digit by two-digit multiplication (larger numbers with calculator).
- Up to three-digit by two-digit division (larger numbers with calculator).
- Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.
- Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations.
- Relationships between operations.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency with multiplication and division:
- Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use graphs, probability, and data analysis.
- Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including line graphs and bar graphs) to solve problems.
- Objective 4.02: Describe the distribution of data using median, range and mode.
