few_shots: 
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: Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to use diagrams to reason about products of a whole number and a non-unit fraction with diagrams, building on their work with diagrams that represent products of a whole number an a unit fraction. They begin to generalize that the number of shaded parts in a diagram that represents
\(n \times \frac{a}{b}\)
is
\(n \times a\)
and to explain that generalization (MP8).
Launch
Groups of 2
“Let's represent some other products of a whole number and a fraction and find their values.”
Activity
“Take a few quiet minutes to work on the activity. Afterwards, share your responses with your partner.”
5–7 minutes: independent work
2–3 minutes: partner discussion
Monitor for the strategies students use to reason about the last two problems.
Identify students who reason visually (using diagrams), additively, and multiplicatively to share in the synthesis.
Student Facing
This diagram represents
\(\frac{2}{5}\)
.
[IMG]
Show how you would use or adjust the diagram to represent
\(4 \times \frac{2}{5}\)
.
What is the value of the shaded parts in your diagram?
This diagram represents
\(\frac{5}{8}\)
.
[IMG]
Show how you would use or adjust the diagram to represent
\(3 \times \frac{5}{8}\)
.
What is the value of the shaded parts in your diagram?
Find the value of each expression. Draw a diagram if you find it helpful. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
\(2 \times \frac {1}{6}\)
\(2 \times \frac{4}{6}\)
\(2 \times \frac {5}{6}\)
\(4 \times \frac{5}{6}\)
Mai said that to multiply any fraction by a whole number, she would multiply the whole number and the numerator of the fraction and keep the same denominator. Do you agree with Mai? Explain your reasoning.
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Discuss the four multiplication expressions in the third problem.
Select 1–2 students who might have drawn diagrams for all expressions.
“How does your diagram show the value of
\(2 \times \frac{4}{6}\)
?” (There are 2 groups of
\(\frac{4}{6}\)
, so there are 8 sixths shaded, which is
\(\frac{8}{6}\)
.)
Select 1–2 students who drew a diagram for some expressions and reason numerically for others.
“Why did you choose to draw a diagram for some expressions and to do something else for others?” (After drawing the first two diagrams, I realized that I'd have to draw a lot of groups or parts, so I thought about the numbers instead.)
Select 1–2 students who reasoned about all expressions numerically.
“How did you find the value of the expressions without drawing diagrams at all?” (I saw a pattern in earlier problems, that we can multiply the whole number and the numerator of the fraction and keep the denominator.)
Discuss the last problem in the lesson synthesis.


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