standard_description: Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.” (Expectations for unit rates in this grade are limited to non-complex fractions.)
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this True or False is to elicit the strategies and understandings students have for explaining why an equation is true based on place value. These understandings will be helpful later when students need to find ways to make equations true by attending to place value.
Launch
Display one statement.
“Give me a signal when you know whether the statement is true and can explain how you know.”
1 minute: quiet think time
Activity
Share and record answers and strategies.
Repeat with each statement.
Student Facing
Decide if each statement true or false. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
5 hundreds + 2 tens + 7 ones = 527
4 hundreds + 12 tens + 7 ones = 527
5 hundreds + 7 ones + 2 tens = 527
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
“What other ways could we write an expression that has a value of 527?”


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