Grades 4 – 8 Samples Day 2
Which of these do you think are good lesson consolidating questions?
Be ready to discuss your choices and what big ideas you think your good choices
bring out.
Grade 4:
Expectation: Compare and order fractions to the benchmarks of 0, ½ and 1
Question: Put these fractions in order from least to greatest:
2 1 2
,
, ,
3 10 3
5
1
and .
6
4
1
. If I told you the denominator,
3
how would you figure out the numerator? If I told you the numerator, how
would you figure out the denominator?
Question: A fraction is pretty close to
Question: How do you know that
4
1
is closer to
than to 0?
10
2
Grade 5:
Expectation: Demonstrate an understanding of simple multiplicative
relationships involving whole-number rates, through investigation using concrete
materials and drawings.
Question: If two books cost $6, how much would eight books cost? How
do you know?
Question: If you know that three books cost $5, what other numbers of
books would be easier for you to figure out the price of? What numbers
would be harder for you? Why?
Question: Liisa has over 100 nickels. She is going to trade them all for
quarters. What do you know about how many quarters she will have? How
do you know that?
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Grade 6:
Expectation: Represent ratios found in real-life contexts using concrete
materials, drawings, and standard fractional notation
Question: In the video game club, there are 8 boys and 2 girls. What
fraction of the students in the club are girls?
Question: In a classroom, there are 8 boys and 12 girls. Represent the
ratio 8:12 two different ways. Which way makes it easier to see that more
than half the class are girls?
Question: A package has 8 red balloons and 2 blue ones. Represent the
ratio 8:2 using red and blue counters.
Grade 7:
Expectation: Solve problems that involve determining whole number percents,
using a variety of tools
Question: Bag A has 20 marbles; 5 of them are blue. Bag B has 25
marbles; 6 of them are blue. Would it be useful to figure out the percent of
blue in each bag to decide whether you are more likely to pick blue from
Bag A or Bag B? Explain.
Question: If there are 5 blue marbles in a bag of 20 marbles, what
percent of the marbles are not blue?
Question: If there are 5 blue marbles in a bag of 28 marbles, is the
percent of blue marbles more or less than 20%? How do you know?
Grade 8:
Expectation: Solve problems involving rates
Question: A pack of 24 CDs costs $7.99. A pack of 50 CDs costs $10.45.
What is the best way to buy 130 CDs?
Question: A store has a sign that says “6 CDs for $1.98.” What other
signs could they put up that really give the same information? Which of
those signs do you think is most useful? Why?
Question: Which is a better buy—24 CDs for $7.99 or 15 CDs for $5.19?
Math Camppp 2010