few_shots: 
Example:
Problem/activity:
You’re mixing ingredients for cookies. The recipe says to combine 6 tablespoons, or ¾ stick, of butter with 1 cup of sugar. You accidentally mix in a whole stick of butter (8 tablespoons) with the cup of sugar. How can you fix this?


Concept/skill: 
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

Answer: 
No. Usually problems that teach recognizing and representing proportional relationships between quantities involve deciding whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship or identifying the constant of proportionality, and then representing proportional relationships by equations or explaining proportional relationship using coordinate graphs.

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

shot_info: fl_problem_000972_neg_0

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standard_description: Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
problem_activity: Anton writes a model that describes the number of tacos his friends eat as a function of the cost of the total tacos. Below is a graph of the model.
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Anton writes a second model that describes the total cost of the tacos as a function of the number of tacos his friends eat. Below is a graph of the model.
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Label the axes appropriately. Which one makes more sense?
How are these two graphs similar? Different?
How are these two equations similar? Different?


aligns: no