3rd Grade Task: Tile Task

3rd Grade Task: Tile Task

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 
  • How were the strategies that you shared similar and different?
  • How did you know that you could break the numbers into smaller combinations?
  • How is it helpful to break the numbers into smaller combinations?
  • Does it matter what combinations you use? Can you explain?
  • Can you suggest any rules for making the number combinations? Can you use any numbers?
  • Is it helpful to label the numbers to show what they represent? If so, can you explain why?
  • If you break the number 15 into 5 and 10 so you can do the multiplication, does the order in which you multiply matter?
  • What is the relationship between addition and multiplication?

Activity/Task Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Applying