Date: April 11, 2018

Lesson: Unit 6, Solve Compare Problems.

Materials:
● Comparison bars, whiteboards, markers and erasers, new worksheet, story problems,
I can’s:
● I can find the number that is not known.
● I can write a number sentence using information from our story problem.
Vocabulary:
Lesson:
● Review: what more and fewer means. And what the comparison bars look like if we draw
them out.
● Story problem: Joy picks 13 tulips. Emily picks 8 tulips. How many fewer does Emily
pick?
○ How could we use comparison bars to solve this story problem? (Draw a student’s
name from the ticket jar.) Have the student show how they would work it out
using the comparison bars on the whiteboard.
○ Ask another student to write a number sentence to match what we just showed
with our comparison bars.
● Dismiss students to go and get their whiteboards, freetime until everyone is ready.
● We are now going to solve story problems where the unknown quantity (point to the oval)
is more than the known quantity (the big rectangle) using our comparison bars.
○ Story problem: Sam sees 5 more cats than dogs. He sees 14 cats. How many dogs
does he see?
○ Demonstrate on the board: Have a long rectangle be for the dogs, short rectangle
for cats (14) and then an oval for the unknown (in this case 5).
○ Have the students figure out and show on their boards: What number is going to
be in the longer rectangle? (9)
○ What is our number sentence going to look like? 14-5 = 9
● Have the students erase their boards. Say this story problem: Jess has 8 stickers. Jess has
6 fewer stickers than David. How many stickers does David have? (14 stickers)
● High context questions to ask throughout the lesson to get the higher students thinking
and to challenge the other students:
■ How many more dogs would Sam need to see for dogs to be the most?
■ How many cats would Sam have to see to have the least? Equal/the same?

Exit Ticket:

Number 8 on the test for next lesson

Joy picks 13 tulips. Emily picks 8 tulips. How many fewer does Emily pick?

Sam sees 5 more cats than dogs. He sees 14 cats. How many dogs does he see?