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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: 
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.

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 to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.

Answer: 
No. The expressions shown in this problem do not involve multiplying fractions with other fractions, nor whole numbers with fractions.

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.
|                                                          | **           No solution          ** | **           Exactly 1 solution          ** | **           Infinite number of solutions          ** |
|----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                       $${9=4x+7}$$                       |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                       $${y=3y+5}$$                       |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                    $${y={x\over2}}$$                     |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                     $${3x+6y-9=0}$$                      |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|    $${x=y}$$                        $${1.25x=1.25y}$$    |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
| $${9.9=6x+8y}$$                        $${9x=2.5y-8.8}$$ |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
| $${11x-2y=1.5}$$                        $${11x-2y=2.5}$$ |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
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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standard_description: Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.
Grade 4 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.
problem_activity: Narrative
In this activity, students see that they can find equivalent fractions by dividing the numerator and denominator by a common factor. They connect this strategy to the process of grouping unit fractions on a number line into larger equal-size parts. The result is a fewer number of parts, and smaller numbers for the numerator and denominator of equivalent fractions.
MLR8 Discussion Supports.
Synthesis: At the appropriate time, give students 2–3 minutes to make sure that everyone in their group can explain the strategies used in the given examples. Invite groups to rehearse what they will say when they share with the whole class.
Advances: Speaking, Conversing, Representing
Launch
Groups of 2
Activity
“Work with your partner to answer the first three problems.”
“Be prepared to explain how you think Andre’s and Kiran’s strategies are related.”
7–8 minutes: partner work time
“Take a few minutes to answer the last problem independently.”
2–3 minutes: independent work time for the last problem
Student Facing
Andre drew a number line and marked a point on it. Label the point with the fraction it represents.
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To find other fractions that the point represents, Andre made copies of the number line. He drew darker marks on some of the existing tick marks.
Label the darker tick marks Andre made on each number line.
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Kiran wrote the same fractions for the points but used a different strategy, as shown. Analyze his reasoning.
\(\frac{8 \ \div \ 4}{12 \ \div \ 4}=\frac{2}{3}\)
\(\frac{8 \ \div \ 2}{12 \ \div \ 2}=\frac{4}{6}\)
How do you think Andre’s and Kiran’s strategies are related?
Try using Kiran’s strategy to find one or more fractions that are equivalent to
\(\frac{10}{12}\)
and
\(\frac{18}{12}\)
.
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
“What did Andre do with the number lines? How would it help him find equivalent fractions?” (Andre grouped the 12 parts into equal groups of different sizes—2s, 4s—to make bigger parts. Then, he counted the number of those new parts.)
“What did Kiran do? How is his strategy related to Andre’s?” (Kiran divided 12 by 4 and then by 2, similar to how Andre put 12 parts into groups of 4 and then of 2.)
“Notice that the equivalent fractions
\(\frac{2}{3}\)
and
\(\frac{4}{6}\)
both have smaller numbers for the numerator and denominator than the original fraction. Can you use Andre’s number line to show why this might be?” (The size of the parts are bigger, so there are fewer parts in 1 whole.)
If time permits, ask students:
“How many equivalent fractions can you find for
\(\frac{10}{12}\)
using Kiran’s way?” (One) “How many can you find for
\(\frac{18}{12}\)
?” (Three)
“What might be a reason that you could find more equivalent fractions for
\(\frac{18}{12}\)
than for
\(\frac{10}{12}\)
?” (18 and 12 have more factors in common than 10 and 12.)
“How would you show
\(\frac{9 \ \div \ 3}{12 \ \div \ 3}=\frac{3}{4}\)
on the number line?” (Put the original 12 parts into groups of 3 to get 4 parts, each being a fourth. Mark 3 of those 4 parts to show
\(\frac{3}{4}\)
.)


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