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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 JCU 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 SSU-Separate Start Unknown?
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 on, making a ten, doubling
What are strategies?
300
Meg had 13 M&Ms. She gave some to Jason. Now she has 5 M&Ms left. How many M&Ms 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. 5 are red and the rest are green. How many green Skittles does Lisa 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 & Ms. She has 5 more M & Ms than Laura. How many M & Ms does Laura have?
What is Compare Referent Unknown?
500
A problem in which you are trying to find the number of objects in each group.
What is Partitive Division?
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?