631 Fun with Fractions: Another Look at the Set Model Using Attribute Pieces Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students create arbitrary sets of attribute blocks and find the fractional parts of the set that have specified attributes. Using attribute blocks for this kind of activity has two advantages: (1) Common attributes will always be shared by several blocks in the set, and (2) Students must learn to ignore irrelevant attributes and focus on specified attributes to find the fractional parts.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This 6-lesson unit exposes students to the set model for fractions and provides an opportunity for them to develop a thorough understanding of this model through multiple applications. In the set model, the unit whole is represented by a set of discrete objects, and subsets of the unit make up the fractional parts.... 633 Calculating Patterns: Finding Properties for Sorting Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: Students sort small sets of objects according to rules they decide upon themselves. After class discussion they re-sort the same sets using different rules.... 634 Food Court: The Bread Basket Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students create a bar graph from data in a chart. They then collect their own data on classmates' sandwich preferences and create another bar graph using either the supplied bar graph template or an online applet.... 635 Food Court: The Soup Spot Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students collect data on classmates' soup and salad preferences and create a line graph depicting the data. Then they create a pictograph of the same data using one star to represent each student.... 636 Food Court: The Clucking Chicken Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students order meals in pairs from a restaurant menu, find the range of prices, and then compute the average price. One student from each pair goes to the front of the room, where they order themselves according to price.... 637 What's in a Name: Last Names Next Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students collect data on the number of letters in their last names and construct a class bar graph to depict the frequencies. They discuss the range and mode of the data.... 638 What's in a Name: Creating Pictographs Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students collect data on the number of vowels in their full names and depict the data in pictographs, first with stars that represent one student each, then with stars that represent two or three students each. Activity sheets, discussion questions, suggestions for assessment, and questions for teacher reflection are included.... 639 Look at Me: The Eyes Have It Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students tally how many of their classmates have blue, brown, black, or green eyes. They line up to create a human bar graph.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson has three parts, and ORC recommends the third part, an introduction to probability with a discussion of events that are impossible, certain, or likely. Discussion questions, suggestions for assessment, and questions for teacher reflection are included.... |