6th Grade Task: Math Competition

6th Grade Task: Math Competition

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 

Whole Group Questions:

  • Can someone explain to the class where Tommy made his mistake?
  • Which math skills does this task address?
  • What does a variable represent in an expression?
  • Could we have chosen to use a variable for another part of the problem?
  • How does using a variable, affect the answer in an expression?

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding
Differentiation suggestions: 

Entry/Extensions:

Assessing and Advancing Questions

If students can’t get started….

Assessing:

  • What does the problem say?
  • What information is the problem giving me?
  • What could I do to help me organize or set up the problem?

Advancing:

  • Can you make a table to organize the information?
  • Which tool would you like to use to organize this information to compare the rates, a table or graph? Why?

If students finish early….

Advancing:

  • If a bus will hold a maximum of 72 people, what is the maximum amount of teams that could ride on the bus?
  • Can you write a general equation to represent this?