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

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.
problem_activity: Activity
In the previous activity, students interpreted given tape diagrams and explained how they represented a story. Here, they have a chance to draw tape diagrams to represent a story. The first story is a bit more scaffolded because it specifies what
\(x\)
represents. In the other two stories, students need to decide which quantity to represent with a variable and choose a letter to use. As with all activities in this lesson, students are
not
expected to write and solve an equation. This preliminary work supports the understanding needed to be able to represent such situations with equations.
Digital
Launch
Keep students in the same groups. You might have
each
student draw
all three
diagrams and compare them with their groups, working together to resolve any discrepancies. Or if time is short, you might assign
each
student in the group
a different story—
ask each student to explain their diagram to their group to see if their group members agree with their interpretation.
For classrooms using the digital version of the materials, take a minute to demonstrate how the controls work in the applet. Some students may prefer to draw the diagrams in their notebooks or on scratch paper.
Action and Expression: Internalize Executive Functions.
Provide students with a blank template of a tape diagram to represent each story.
Supports accessibility for: Language; Organization
Student Facing
Here are three more stories. Draw a tape diagram to represent each story. Then describe how you would find any unknown amounts in the stories.
Noah and his sister are making gift bags for a birthday party. Noah puts 3 pencil erasers in each bag. His sister puts
\(x\)
stickers in each bag. After filling 4 bags, they have used a total of 44 items.
Noah’s family also wants to blow up a total of 60 balloons for the party. Yesterday they blew up 24 balloons. Today they want to split the remaining balloons equally between four family members.
Noah’s family bought some fruit bars to put in the gift bags. They bought one box each of four flavors: apple, strawberry, blueberry, and peach. The boxes all had the same number of bars. Noah wanted to taste the flavors and ate one bar from each box. There were 28 bars left for the gift bags.
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Print
Launch
Keep students in the same groups. You might have
each
student draw
all three
diagrams and compare them with their groups, working together to resolve any discrepancies. Or if time is short, you might assign
each
student in the group
a different story—
ask each student to explain their diagram to their group to see if their group members agree with their interpretation.
For classrooms using the digital version of the materials, take a minute to demonstrate how the controls work in the applet. Some students may prefer to draw the diagrams in their notebooks or on scratch paper.
Action and Expression: Internalize Executive Functions.
Provide students with a blank template of a tape diagram to represent each story.
Supports accessibility for: Language; Organization
Student Facing
Here are three more stories. Draw a tape diagram to represent each story. Then describe how you would find any unknown amounts in the stories.
Noah and his sister are making gift bags for a birthday party. Noah puts 3 pencil erasers in each bag. His sister puts
\(x\)
stickers in each bag. After filling 4 bags, they have used a total of 44 items.
Noah’s family also wants to blow up a total of 60 balloons for the party. Yesterday they blew up 24 balloons. Today they want to split the remaining balloons equally between four family members.
Noah’s family bought some fruit bars to put in the gift bags. They bought one box each of four flavors: apple, strawberry, blueberry, and peach. The boxes all had the same number of bars. Noah wanted to taste the flavors and ate one bar from each box. There were 28 bars left for the gift bags.
Student Response
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Student Facing
Are you ready for more?
Design a tiling that uses a repeating pattern consisting of 2 kinds of shapes (e.g., 1 hexagon with 3 triangles forming a triangle). How many times did you repeat the pattern in your picture? How many individual shapes did you use?
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Activity Synthesis
Much of the discussion will take place in groups. Here are some ideas for synthesizing students’ learning about creating tape diagrams:
Ask students if they had any disagreements in their groups and how they resolved them.
Ask students how they decided which unknown quantity to find in the story. The first story specifies
\(x\)
stickers, but the other stories do not define a variable.
Display one diagram for each story and ask students to explain how they are alike and how they are different.


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