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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 differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers).
problem_activity: Activity
In this activity, students use their understanding of spreadsheets to compute useful statistics from data sets. In the associated Algebra 1 lesson, students will learn alternative methods for computing these values.
Launch
If students need a reminder about how to use a spreadsheet as a calculator, demonstrate how to do basic calculations such as =A1+A2, =SUM(A1:A10), =(A1+A2)/A3, and =COUNT(A1:A50) or =LENGTH(A1:A50) in GeoGebra.
Student Facing
Here is a list of the number of pages for fiction books on a shelf.
15
243
426
175
347
186
236
394
170
412
242
479
185
254
186
278
277
278
486
207
378
251
458
360
440
181
349
482
382
Describe a method to find the mean of these values. (Do not calculate the value yet.)
Input the data into a spreadsheet in the same column. In another column, write a spreadsheet formula that will compute the value of the mean for the values in the column. What is the mean number of pages in these books?
The first book on the list with 15 pages was a recording error and should have been 158 pages. You need to compute the new mean using 158 instead of 15. Would you rather compute the new mean by hand or use a computer? Explain your reasoning.
What is the new mean number of pages in these books with the updated value of 158 pages for the first book in the list?
Another book is found and added to the shelf. This new book has 519 pages. How would you update your spreadsheet formula to include this new value?
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Select students to share their responses and methods for finding the mean from a list of values in a spreadsheet. The purpose of the discussion is to point out the advantage of using a spreadsheet to calculate statistics, especially for very large sets of data. For further discussion, consider asking these questions:
"Which part of the process for finding the mean for these values took the most time?" (Typing the values into the spreadsheet and making sure they are correct.)
"Often large data sets are collected electronically and automatically added to a spreadsheet. When there are thousands of data values in a spreadsheet, what other advantages do you think might be helpful when using technology to compute the mean?" (It may be difficult to understand the data when there are so many values, so using the spreadsheet to calculate the mean can help in understanding what is typical. It would definitely be faster to use the spreadsheet to calculate the mean than doing it by hand.)
"What other statistics would be useful and easier to calculate using a spreadsheet?" (If the data set is large or the numbers are difficult to understand at a glance, the median, quartiles, interquartile range, mean absolute deviation, maximum, and minimum should all be easy for a computer to find from a list.)


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