few_shots: Example 1:
Problem/activity:
Task
Materials
One 10-frame per pair of students (see example below)
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Counters, 10 per pair of students
Decks of number cards 0-5 (with 4 of each number) or two 0-5 dice
Setup
This activity is done in pairs. The students sit side by side with 10-frame and deck of cards or dice. If they have cards, the cards are shuffled and placed face down in front of them.
Action
Player 1 flips a card or rolls the die. They place that many counters on the 10-frame. Player 2 flips a card or rolls the die. They place that many more counters on the 10-frame next to the counters already on the ten frame. The students count the total together.
A recording sheet can be added when the students have been introduced to equations and number sentences. For those students who can handle higher numbers, a deck of 0-10 cards and two 10-frames can be used.
This game can also be played alone.


Topic options: 
A. Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.
B. Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.
C. Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
D. Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.
E. Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.
F. Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.
G. Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.
H. Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.
I. Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.
J. Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.
K. Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.


Your response:
Thought: This task involves learning addition, which is a mathematical operation, using objects.
Answer: F

Example 2:
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
$$-\frac{1}{4}$$


Topic options: 
A. Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.
B. Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.
C. Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.
D. Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
E. Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.
F. Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.
G. Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.
H. Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.
I. Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.
J. Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.
K. Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.


Your response:
Thought: This problem teaches students different ways of writing numbers that express the same value. This helps students better understand the complex number system, which includes rational numbers.
Answer: I

Example 3:
Problem/activity:
Find the general solution for:
$${\mathrm{cos}\left({\pi\over2}+x\right)=\mathrm{tan}{\pi\over4}}$$


Topic options: 
A. Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.
B. Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.
C. Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.
D. Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.
E. Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.
F. Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.
G. Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.
H. Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.
I. Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.
J. Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.
K. Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.


Your response:
Thought: This problem pertains to functions because it asks students to find the general solution to a trigonometric function.
Answer: B

Now, assign the following problem or activity to one or more relevant topics it teaches.
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options: Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.
problem_activity: Activity
In this task, students calculate and interpret both
\(\frac{a}{b}\)
and
\(\frac{b}{a}\)
from a ratio
\(a:b\)
presented in a context. They work with less-familiar units. The term
unit rate
is introduced so that students have a general name for a “how many per 1” quantity.
In the first half of the task, students practice computing unit rates from ratios. In the second half they practice selecting the better unit rate to use (
\(\frac{a}{b}\)
or
\(\frac{b}{a}\)
) based on the question posed.
As students work on the second half of the task, identify 1–2 students per question to share their choice of unit rate and how it was used to answer the question.
Launch
Recap that in the previous activity the ratio of 15 cups water for every 6 cups oats can be expressed as two rates “per 1”. These rates are 0.4 cups of oats per cup of water or 2.5 cups of water per cup of oats. Emphasize that, in a table, each of these rates reflects a value paired with a “1” in a row, and that both can be useful depending on the problem at hand. Tell students that we call 0.4 and 2.5 “unit rates” and that a unit rate means “the amount of one quantity for 1 of another quantity.”
Arrange students in groups of 2. Tell students that they will now solve some problems using unit rates. Give students 3–4 minutes to complete the first half of the task (the first three problems). Ask them to share their responses with their partner and come to an agreement before moving on to the second half. Clarify that “oz” is an abbreviation for “ounce.”
Representation: Develop Language and Symbols.
Create a display of important terms and vocabulary. Invite students to suggest language or diagrams to include that will support their understanding of these terms. Include the following term and maintain the display for reference throughout the unit: unit rate.
Supports accessibility for: Conceptual processing; Language
Writing, Listening: MLR6 Three Reads.
Use this routine to set students up to comprehend each situation, without solving the questions for them. In the first read, students read the situation with the goal of comprehending the situation (e.g., a cheesecake recipe contains cream cheese and sugar, Mai’s family drinks milk regularly, Tyler has raffle tickets). In the second read, ask students to identify the important quantities by asking them what can be counted or measured (e.g., 12 oz of cream cheese with 15 oz of sugar, 10 gallons of milk every 6 weeks, $16 for 4 raffle tickets). In the third read, ask students to brainstorm possible mathematical solution strategies to answer the question. This helps students connect the ratio language used in the problem to identify a strategy for finding a unit rate.
Design Principle(s): Support sense-making
Student Facing
For each situation, find the
unit rates
.
A cheesecake recipe says, “Mix 12 oz of cream cheese with 15 oz of sugar.”
How many ounces of cream cheese are there for every ounce of sugar?
How many ounces of sugar is that for every ounce of cream cheese?
Mai’s family drinks a total of 10 gallons of milk every 6 weeks.
How many gallons of milk does the family drink per week?
How many weeks does it take the family to consume 1 gallon of milk?
Tyler paid
$
16 for 4 raffle tickets.
What is the price per ticket?
How many tickets is that per dollar?
For each problem, decide which unit rate from the previous situations you prefer to use. Next, solve the problem, and show your thinking.
If Lin wants to make extra cheesecake filling, how much cream cheese will she need to mix with 35 ounces of sugar?
How many weeks will it take Mai’s family to finish 3 gallons of milk?
How much would all 1,000 raffle tickets cost?
Student Response
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Student Facing
Are you ready for more?
Write a “deal” on tickets for Tyler’s raffle that sounds good, but is actually a little worse than just buying tickets at the normal price.
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Anticipated Misconceptions
If students are not sure how to use the unit rates they found for each situation to answer the second half of the task, remind them of how the oatmeal problem was solved. Suggest that this problem is similar because they can scale up from a unit rate to answer the questions.
Activity Synthesis
Invite previously identified students to share their work on the second half (the last three questions) of the task.
Though the task prompts students to think in terms of unit rate, some students may still reason in ways that feel safer. For example, to find out how much cream cheese Lin would mix with 35 oz of sugar, they may double the 12 oz of cream cheese to 15 oz of sugar ratio to obtain 24 oz of cream cheese for 30 oz of sugar, and then add 4 oz more of cream cheese for the additional 5 oz of sugar. Such lines of reasoning show depth of understanding and should be celebrated. Guide students to also see, however, that some problems (such as the milk problem) can be more efficiently solved using unit rates.
For the ticket problem, students may comment that
\(\frac14\)
of a ticket costing a dollar does not make sense, since it is not possible to purchase
\(\frac14\)
of a ticket. Take this opportunity to applaud the student(s) for reasoning about the interpretation of the number in the context, which is an example of engaging in MP2. If students do not raise this concern, ask: “How can
\(\frac14\)
of a ticket costing a dollar make sense?” Students may argue that the quantity, on its own, does not make sense. Challenge them to figure out how the rate could be used in the context of the problem. For example, ask, “If I had
$
80, how many tickets could I buy? What if I had
$
75? Can the ‘
\(\frac14\)
of a ticket per dollar’ rate help answer these questions?”


correct_option_index: 5