few_shots: 
Example 1:
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: 
Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

Answer: 
Yes. This problem solves a real-world problem involving mixing ingredients for cookies. A student doing this problem would need to reason about equivalent ratios of butter amounts to sugar amounts.

Example 2:
Problem/activity:
For each pair of numbers, determine if the values are equivalent. Explain your reasoning for each one.
a.
$$-0.25$$
and
$$\frac{1}{-4}$$
b.
$$-\left ( \frac{1}{4} \right )$$
and
$$\frac{-1}{-4}$$
c.
$$\frac{-1}{4}$$
and
$$-\frac{1}{4}$$


Concept/skill: 
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division and of fractions to multiply and divide rational numbers.

Answer: 
Yes. This problem involves understanding fractions and division to divide rational numbers, such as 1, -4, 4, and -1. This problem also involves an understanding of multiplication: if p and q are integers, then -(p/q) = (-p)/q = p/(-q).

Example 3:
Problem/activity:
Problem 1
The table below contains single equations in a single variable, single equations in two variables, and pairs of simultaneous equations in two variables. Check the appropriate box to show whether there is no solution, exactly 1 solution, or if there is an infinite number of solutions.
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Problem 2
Kim has a small container and a large container as shown.
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It takes 16 of the small containers to fill the large container. Three small containers leave 1.95 gallons of space in the big container.
What is the size of each of the two containers?


Concept/skill: 
Prove that, given a system of two equations in two variables, replacing one equation by the sum of that equation and a multiple of the other produces a system with the same solutions.

Answer: 
No. Completing neither of these problems requires replacing one equation by the sum of that equation and a multiple of the other equation.

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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fl_problem_001097_pos_0

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fl_problem_001392_neg_0

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standard_description: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
problem_activity: Activity
In the previous activity, students interpreted given tape diagrams and explained how they represented a story. Here, they have a chance to draw tape diagrams to represent a story. The first story is a bit more scaffolded because it specifies what
\(x\)
represents. In the other two stories, students need to decide which quantity to represent with a variable and choose a letter to use. As with all activities in this lesson, students are
not
expected to write and solve an equation. This preliminary work supports the understanding needed to be able to represent such situations with equations.
Digital
Launch
Keep students in the same groups. You might have
each
student draw
all three
diagrams and compare them with their groups, working together to resolve any discrepancies. Or if time is short, you might assign
each
student in the group
a different story—
ask each student to explain their diagram to their group to see if their group members agree with their interpretation.
For classrooms using the digital version of the materials, take a minute to demonstrate how the controls work in the applet. Some students may prefer to draw the diagrams in their notebooks or on scratch paper.
Action and Expression: Internalize Executive Functions.
Provide students with a blank template of a tape diagram to represent each story.
Supports accessibility for: Language; Organization
Student Facing
Here are three more stories. Draw a tape diagram to represent each story. Then describe how you would find any unknown amounts in the stories.
Noah and his sister are making gift bags for a birthday party. Noah puts 3 pencil erasers in each bag. His sister puts
\(x\)
stickers in each bag. After filling 4 bags, they have used a total of 44 items.
Noah’s family also wants to blow up a total of 60 balloons for the party. Yesterday they blew up 24 balloons. Today they want to split the remaining balloons equally between four family members.
Noah’s family bought some fruit bars to put in the gift bags. They bought one box each of four flavors: apple, strawberry, blueberry, and peach. The boxes all had the same number of bars. Noah wanted to taste the flavors and ate one bar from each box. There were 28 bars left for the gift bags.
Student Response
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Print
Launch
Keep students in the same groups. You might have
each
student draw
all three
diagrams and compare them with their groups, working together to resolve any discrepancies. Or if time is short, you might assign
each
student in the group
a different story—
ask each student to explain their diagram to their group to see if their group members agree with their interpretation.
For classrooms using the digital version of the materials, take a minute to demonstrate how the controls work in the applet. Some students may prefer to draw the diagrams in their notebooks or on scratch paper.
Action and Expression: Internalize Executive Functions.
Provide students with a blank template of a tape diagram to represent each story.
Supports accessibility for: Language; Organization
Student Facing
Here are three more stories. Draw a tape diagram to represent each story. Then describe how you would find any unknown amounts in the stories.
Noah and his sister are making gift bags for a birthday party. Noah puts 3 pencil erasers in each bag. His sister puts
\(x\)
stickers in each bag. After filling 4 bags, they have used a total of 44 items.
Noah’s family also wants to blow up a total of 60 balloons for the party. Yesterday they blew up 24 balloons. Today they want to split the remaining balloons equally between four family members.
Noah’s family bought some fruit bars to put in the gift bags. They bought one box each of four flavors: apple, strawberry, blueberry, and peach. The boxes all had the same number of bars. Noah wanted to taste the flavors and ate one bar from each box. There were 28 bars left for the gift bags.
Student Response
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Student Facing
Are you ready for more?
Design a tiling that uses a repeating pattern consisting of 2 kinds of shapes (e.g., 1 hexagon with 3 triangles forming a triangle). How many times did you repeat the pattern in your picture? How many individual shapes did you use?
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Activity Synthesis
Much of the discussion will take place in groups. Here are some ideas for synthesizing students’ learning about creating tape diagrams:
Ask students if they had any disagreements in their groups and how they resolved them.
Ask students how they decided which unknown quantity to find in the story. The first story specifies
\(x\)
stickers, but the other stories do not define a variable.
Display one diagram for each story and ask students to explain how they are alike and how they are different.


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