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Christie has 5 marbles. Tammy gave her 4 more marbles. How many marbles does Christie have in all ?
What is JRU Join Result Unknown?
100
How much would 8 bags of candy cost if each bag costs $2.50?
What is multiplication - price problem?
100
8 toy cars/5 more cars Rene makes a set of 8 cubes and a set of 5 cubes. She pushes them together and counts them, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 9,10, 11,12,13. She then responds, "There are 13 cars."
What is Direct Modeling - Joining All?
100
A 10 - 15 minute whole group mental math activity.
What is Number Talks?
100
JRU SRU SCU SSU CDU etc.
What are problem types?
200
Jill had some marbles. She gave 8 to Heather. Now she has 13 marbles left. How many marbles did Jill have to start with?
What is Separate Start Unknown SSU?
200
JoAnne has 7 party bags to put the same amount of candy in each one. She has a total of 42 pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy goes in each bag?
What is partitive division?
200
4 toy cars/7 toy cars Molly counts 8, 9, 10, 11 - 11 toy cars.
What is counting on from larger?
200
An assessment of math strategies.
What is the GloSS assessment?
200
direct modeling counting tens and ones
What are strategies?
300
Meg had 13 M&M's. She gave some to Jason. Now she has 5 M&M"S left. How many M&M's did Meg give to Jason?
What is SCU Separate Change Unknown?
300
Becky has 5 boxes of pencils. There are 6 pencils in each box. How many pencils does Becky have?
What is multiplication?
300
6 frogs/8 more frogs S- Helen calls out 14. T- How did you know there were 14? S - because 6 and 6 is 12, and 2 more is 14
What is using derived facts - doubling?
300
Students spend most of their time solving problems, possibly related to a book or unit of study. They learn how to solve problems in their own way.
What is CGI?
300
A model a student can use to show 80 - 34. Start at 34 and add 6 and then 40 34 + 6 = 40 40 + 40 + 80 46 is the answer
What is a number chart or a numberline?
400
Lisa has 13 Skittles. Five are red and the rest are green. How many green M&M's does Jaime have?
What is Part Part Whole - Part Unknown?
400
Tammy has 36 photos from her trip to Disneyland. She put 4 photos on a page in her scrapbook. How many pages does she need?
What is measurement division?
400
24 children / 6 teams Becky counts, "Let's see, 3,6,9,12,15,18 With each number Mike extended a finger. No not enough let's try 4 - 4,8,12,16,20,24 again extending a finger each time - 6 fingers up that's it 4 on each team.
What is Trial and Error?
400
Direct Modeling, Counting On/Back, Deriving
What are the Developmental Stages of Mathematical Reasoning?
400
4 + 5 = 3 + 6 7 - 5 = 2 + 5 - 5 6 + 7 = 7 + 3 + 2
What are true and false problems?
500
Erin has 13 M & M's. She has 5 more M&M's than Laura. How many M&M"S does Erin have?
What is Compare Referent Unknown?
500
A farmer plants a rectangular vegetable garden that measures 6 meters along one side and 8 meters along an adjacent side. How many square meters of garden did the farmer plant?
What is an Area problem?
500
Tim has 5 baseball cards/Jason has 9 baseball cards Amanda took out 5 cubes and line them up/ then she took out 9 cubes and put them right next to the 5 - one next to one for each cube. Notice 4 extra - answer is 4
What is Direct Modeling - matching?
500
Children will become independent problem solvers.
What is the goal of CGI?
500
cubes, fingers, base ten blocks, money
What are manipulatives?