5th Grade Ms. Fritzie
Fifth Grade students are to make sense out of their world, to see the mathematics all around them, and to be able to begin to talk about the math in informal terms, and to begin to translate those informal terms and ideas to formal mathematics. It is the teacher’s job to see that there are many experiences for students to grow in these critical areas.
5th Grade Sample Question
Students should work in partners to create their posters. Once the posters are completed, partners present their strategies and conclusions to the class.
Materials:
- Optional inch cubes
- Newsprint or other large paper, pencil, and crayons
The Problem:
Ms Fritzie’s rain guage was 5.5 inches tall and the rain was at the 5 inch mark. “Why it has rained 25 cubic inches?” she exclaimed.
Help students with any vocabulary that is new to them. One of the benefits of using Ms Fritzie is that you do have a great deal of vocabulary that can be introduced as needed to solve the problem. Student partners must then decide whether Ms. Fritzie’s answer is reasonable or unreasonable. They should draw Ms. Fritzie’s face and put a thought bubble that describes what Ms. Fritzie is thinking.
They
should then create a poster using pictures, numbers and words which
will prove whether Ms. Fritzie is reasonable or unreasonable.
Once posters
are complete,
student pairs should tell how they solved the problems. The class
should listen to each presentation. Ultimately you want the class to be able
to compare the
presenting solution strategy to their own strategies.
5th Grade Sample Poster
This problem was very simple for these students. They saw immediately the relationship between what we call "inches" of rain and the actual "cubic inches" unit.
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