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Example:
Concept/skill: 
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

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?


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.

Now, determine whether the following problem or activity can enable students to understand the concepts or skills in the provided description.

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standard_description: 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.”)
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to match language to visual representations of rectangles and circles
partitioned and shaded in different ways.
Representation: Access for Perception.
Read each of the phrases aloud. Students who both listen to and read the information will benefit from extra processing time.
Supports accessibility for: Language, Conceptual Processing
Launch
Groups of 2
Activity
Read the task statement.
“You may use the phrases more than once.”
6 minutes: partner work time
Student Facing
Here are some ways to describe the shapes.
split into fourths
split into halves
split into quarters
a half shaded
a quarter shaded
a fourth shaded
two of the halves shaded
four of the fourths shaded
Label each shape with at least one phrase from the lists.
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Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display the circle with four of the fourths shaded.
“Let’s list all the ways we could describe this shape.” (It’s split into fourths. It is split into quarters. Four of the fourths are shaded.)
Repeat with other shapes as time permits.


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