Essential and guiding questions:
Assessing Questions:
- How did you determine the number of clovers that Max has?
- How did you determine the number of clovers that Max will need to have 10 clovers?
- Describe your drawing or equation. How did this help you determine your solution?
- What do the 5 and 2 represent in your equation?
- How did you determine the number of clovers that Max has?
- How did you determine the number of clovers that Max will need to have 10 clovers?
- Where did you start counting? How do you know where to stop counting?
- What do the 5 and 2 represent in your equation?
- Describe the story problem.
- How many clovers does Max have after he visits the park and his yard?
- How can you model this story problem with cubes?
- How many more clovers will Max need to find so that he has 12 clovers?
- If Max finds 5 clovers and 2 clovers, but then loses 1 clover. How many more will he need to have 10 clovers?
Whole Group Questions:
- Describe how you found the total number of clovers that Max found at the park and in his yard?
- How can a tens frame, cubes or a number line help us model this problem?
- How can we represent this problem with an equation?
