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Example:
Problem/activity:
Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to create composite shapes and compose new shapes from composite shapes. For example, students may find that a rectangular prism can be made from four triangular prisms or from eight smaller cubes. Students then discover that they can combine two of the composed rectangular prisms to make a new rectangular prism.
Required Materials
Materials to Gather
Geoblocks
Launch
Groups of 4
Give each group geoblocks.
Display a large cube.
“This cube can be built from other shapes. See how many ways you can build a cube using other shapes.”
3 minutes: partner work time
Share responses.
Activity
“Choose a different shape. Try to find smaller shapes you can use to build that shape.”
5 minutes: partner work time
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display a cube and a composite cube—for example, a cube composed of four small cubes and one rectangular prism.
Demonstrate putting the shapes together.
“What new shape did I make with the cube and the cube I made?”
“Put your shapes together to make a rectangular prism.”
Display a rectangular prism and two triangular prisms.
“Find these shapes. Put them together. What new shape can you make?” (a cube, a rectangular block)


Concept/skill: 
Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape. (Students do not need to learn formal names such as “right rectangular prism.”)

Answer: 
Yes. This activity asks students to compose three-dimensional shapes, using geoblocks, to create composite shapes.

Now, does the problem or activity shown below enable students to learn the full intent of the following concept or skill?

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standard_description: Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.
problem_activity: Problem 1
A clothing manufacturer has to use at least 1,000 yards of cotton to make room for new inventory to make shirts and pajamas. A shirt requires 1 yard of fabric, and a pair of pajamas requires 3 yards of fabric. It takes 2 hours to make a shirt and 3 hours to make a pair of pajamas, and there are 1600 hours available to make all of the clothing. Let
$$x$$
represent the number of shirts and
$$y$$
represent the number of pajamas.
What is the smallest number of pajamas the manufacturer can make and meet all of these conditions?
Problem 2
Phil and Cath make and sell boomerangs for a school event. The money they raise will go to charity. They plan to make them in two sizes: small and large.
Phil will carve them from wood.
The small boomerang takes 2 hours to carve, and the large one takes 3 hours to carve.
Phil has a total of 24 hours available for carving.
Cath will decorate them. She only has time to decorate 10 boomerangs of either size.
Phil and Cath want to make as much money for charity as they can.
The small boomerang will make $8 for charity.
The large boomerang will make $10 for charity.
How many small and large boomerangs should they make?
How much money will they then make?


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