standard_description: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this What Do You Know About _____ is to invite students to share what they know about and how they can represent the number
\(\frac{1}{8}\)
.
Launch
Display the number.
“What do you know about
\(\frac{1}{8}\)
?”
1 minute: quiet think time
Activity
Record responses.
“How could we represent the number
\(\frac{1}{8}\)
?”
Student Facing
What do you know about
\(\frac{1}{8}\)
?
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
“What connections do you see between different answers?”


aligns: no