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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: Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.
problem_activity: Task
Below is an isosceles triangle $ABC$ with $|AB| = |AC|$:
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Three students propose different arguments for why $m(\angle B) = m(\angle C)$.
Ravi says
If I draw the bisector of $\angle A$ then this is a line of symmetry for $\triangle ABC$ and so $m(\angle B) = m(\angle C)$.
Brittney says
If $M$ is the midpoint of $\overline{BC}$ then $\triangle ABM$ is congruent to $\triangle ACM$ and so $\angle B$ and $\angle C$ are congruent.
Courtney says
If $P$ is a point on $\overline{BC}$ such that $\overleftrightarrow{AP}$ is perpendicular to $\overline{BC}$ then $\triangle ABP$ is congruent to $\triangle ACP$ and so $\angle B$ and $\angle C$ are congruent.
Fill in the details in each argument to show why $m(\angle B) = m(\angle C)$. Can you find another different argument showing that $m(\angle B) = m(\angle C)$?


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