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Example 1:
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.

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: 
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:
Concept/skill: 
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.

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
$$-\frac{1}{4}$$


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

Example 3:
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.

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?


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, 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: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers. (Computations with rational numbers extend the rules for manipulating fractions to complex fractions.)
problem_activity: Activity
In this activity, students use surface area as a context to extend the order of operations to expressions with exponents. The context provides a reason to evaluate the exponent before performing the multiplication.
Launch
Give students 10 minutes of quiet work time, followed by a class discussion.
Reading: MLR6 Three Reads.
Use this routine to support students’ comprehension of the situation. In the first read, students read the text with the goal of comprehending the situation (e.g., Jada and Noah have different solutions for the surface area of the same cube). In the second read, ask students to identify important quantities that can be counted or measured (e.g., the side length of the cube; the number of faces of a cube; the area of each face of the cube). In the third read, reveal the question, “Do you agree with either of them? Explain your reasoning.” Ask students to brainstorm possible strategies to answer the question (e.g., Find the area of each face of the cube. Multiply the area by 6 to find the surface area of the cube). This will help students concentrate on making sense of the situation before rushing to a solution or method.
Design Principle(s): Support sense-making
Student Facing
A cube has side length 10 inches. Jada says the surface area of the cube is 600 in
2
, and Noah says the surface area of the cube is 3,600 in
2
. Here is how each of them reasoned:
Jada’s Method:
\(6 \boldcdot 10^2\)
\(6 \boldcdot 100\)
\(600\)
Noah’s Method:
\(6 \boldcdot 10^2\)
\(60^2\)
\(3,\!600\)
Do you agree with either of them? Explain your reasoning.
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
In finding the surface area, there is a clear reason to find
\(10^2\)
and then multiply by 6. Tell students that sometimes it is not so clear in which order to evaluate operations. There is an order that we all generally agree on, and when we want something done in a different order, brackets are used to communicate what to do first. When an exponent occurs in the same expression as multiplication or division, we evaluate the exponent first, unless brackets say otherwise. Examples:
\((3\boldcdot 4)^2 = 12^2 = 144\)
, since the brackets tell us to multiply
\(3\boldcdot 4\)
first. But
\(3\boldcdot  4^2 = 3\boldcdot  16 = 48\)
, because since there are no brackets, we evaluate the exponent before multiplying.
If students bring up PEMDAS or another mnemonic for remembering the order of operations, point out that PEMDAS can be misleading in indicating multiplication before division, and addition before subtraction. Discuss the convention that brackets or parentheses indicate that something should be evaluated first, followed by exponents, multiplication, or division (evaluated left to right), and last, addition or subtraction (evaluated left to right).


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