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Example:
Problem/activity:
Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to create composite shapes and compose new shapes from composite shapes. For example, students may find that a rectangular prism can be made from four triangular prisms or from eight smaller cubes. Students then discover that they can combine two of the composed rectangular prisms to make a new rectangular prism.
Required Materials
Materials to Gather
Geoblocks
Launch
Groups of 4
Give each group geoblocks.
Display a large cube.
“This cube can be built from other shapes. See how many ways you can build a cube using other shapes.”
3 minutes: partner work time
Share responses.
Activity
“Choose a different shape. Try to find smaller shapes you can use to build that shape.”
5 minutes: partner work time
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display a cube and a composite cube—for example, a cube composed of four small cubes and one rectangular prism.
Demonstrate putting the shapes together.
“What new shape did I make with the cube and the cube I made?”
“Put your shapes together to make a rectangular prism.”
Display a rectangular prism and two triangular prisms.
“Find these shapes. Put them together. What new shape can you make?” (a cube, a rectangular block)


Concept/skill: 
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.”)

Answer: 
Yes. This activity asks students to compose three-dimensional shapes, using geoblocks, to create composite shapes.

Now, assess whether the following problem or activity is 'aligned' with the given Common Core standard in Mathematics.

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standard_description: Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
problem_activity: Problem 1
Consider the set of numbers
$$6$$
,
$${4 \frac{1}{2}}$$
,
$$2$$
, and
$$5$$
, and answer the questions that follow.
a.   Graph the numbers on the number line and list the numbers in order from least to greatest.
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b.   Write the opposites of each number and graph them on the number line.
c.   Order the opposites from least to greatest.
d.   Is −5 greater than −2? Explain using your number line.
Problem 2
Order the rational numbers below from least to greatest.
$${5, -4, -\frac{1}{3}, \frac{10}{3}, 3, 0, -4\frac{1}{4}, -4\frac{3}{4}}$$
What strategies did you use to determine the correct order?
Problem 3
A student orders three rational numbers from least to greatest as:
$${{{{{{{{{-5}}}}}}}}}$$
,
$${{{{{{{{{-5}}}}}}}}} \frac {1}{3}$$
,
$$6$$
Are the numbers ordered correctly? Choose the best statement below.


aligns: yes