few_shots: 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)


Mathematical concept/skill options: 
A. Reason with shapes and their attributes.
B. Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.
C. Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.
D. Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section.
E. Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.
F. Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
G. Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
H. Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.
I. Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
J. Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.
K. Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems.
L. Prove theorems involving similarity.
M. Prove geometric theorems.
N. Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
O. Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.
P. Apply trigonometry to general triangles.
Q. Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
R. Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
S. Make geometric constructions.
T. Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations.
U. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
V. Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
W. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
X. Understand and apply theorems about circles.
Y. Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.
Z. Experiment with transformations in the plane.
AA. Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles.


Your response, in json format:
{
  "explanation": "This activity asks students to reason how shapes can combine to make other shapes.",
  "answer": "A"
}

Now, assign the following problem or activity to one or more relevant mathematical concepts/skills it teaches.
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options: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Grade 4 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.

Develop Understanding of fractions as numbers.
Grade 3 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8.

Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.

Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Grade 4 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.

Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
Grade 4 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to notice structure in a series of diagrams and the expressions that represent them. They investigate how these expressions vary as the number of rows and columns in the diagram change. Students see how the diagram represents the multiplication expression and also how the diagram helps to find the value of the expression (MP7). Through repeated reasoning they also begin to see how to find the value of a product of any two unit fractions (MP8).
Launch
Groups of 2
Display the images from the task.
“What is different about these diagrams?” (The number of rows increases by 1. The blue shaded piece gets smaller.)
“What is the same?” (The size of the big square. There are always 4 columns. Only one piece is shaded.)
1 minute: quiet think time
Share and record responses.
Activity
1–2 minutes: independent work time to complete the first problem
1–2 minutes: partner discussion
“Now, complete the rest of the problems with your partner.”
5 minutes: partner work time
Monitor for students who:
choose different diagrams to represent with multiplication expressions
represent the same diagram with different multiplication expression, for example,
\(\frac{1}{2}\times\frac{1}{4}\)
and
\(\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{1}{2}\)
Student Facing
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Choose one of the diagrams and write a multiplication expression to represent the shaded region. How much of the whole square is shaded? Explain or show your thinking.
If the pattern continues, draw what you think the next diagram will look like. Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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Student Response
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Advancing Student Thinking
If students do not write correct expressions to represent the diagrams, write the correct expressions and ask, “How do the expressions represent the area of the shaded piece of the diagram?”
Activity Synthesis
Display the diagrams from the student workbook.
Select previously identified students to share.
As students explain where they see the multiplication expression in each diagram, record the expressions under the diagram for all to see.
Refer to the diagram that shows
\(\frac{1}{2}\times\frac{1}{4}\)
or
\(\frac{1}{4}\times\frac {1}{2}\)
.
Display both expressions.
“How does this diagram represent both of these expressions?” (It shows one half of one fourth shaded in and it also shows one fourth of one half shaded in.)
Represent student explanation on the diagrams.
“Why is the area of the shaded region getting smaller in each diagram?” (Because we are shading a smaller piece of
\(\frac{1}{4}\)
each time.)
Display:
\(\frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{4}= \frac{1}{2\times 4}=\frac{1}{8}\)
\(\frac{1}{3} \times \frac{1}{4}= \frac{1}{3\times 4}=\frac{1}{12}\)
\(\frac{1}{4} \times \frac{1}{4}= \frac{1}{4\times 4}=\frac{1}{16}\)
\(\frac{1}{5} \times \frac{1}{4}= \frac{1}{5\times 4}=\frac{1}{20}\)
“These equations represent the diagrams. What patterns do you notice?” (They all have
\(\frac {1}{4}\)
in them. The denominators in the first fractions go 2, 3, 4, 5. The denominators in the middle fractions are multiplication expressions, the denominators in the middle are all multiplied by 4, the denominator in the fraction that shows the value of the shaded piece goes up by 4 each time.)
“How do the diagrams represent
\(\frac{1}{2\times 4}\)
,
\(\frac{1}{3\times4}\)
,
\(\frac{1}{4\times4}\)
,
\(\frac{1}{5\times4}\)
?” (The numerator tells us that there is 1 piece shaded and the denominator tells us the size of the piece. The denominator also tells us the rows and columns that the whole is divided into.)


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