Reading Questions #5 Math & Science

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1. Which of the problems above are most likely to help students develop an understanding
of base-ten number concepts? Why? A: Ramona has 9 bags of cookies with 10 cookies in
each bag. How many cookies does Ramona have?” This problem is most likely to help
students develop an understanding of base-ten number concepts because this problem
is the most developmentally appropriate for someone who is trying to understand base-
ten problems. This problem is the most simple and only requires the students to create
9 groups of 10 to figure out how many cookies she has all together.
a. Ramona has 9 bags of cookies with 10 cookies in each bag. How many cookies
does Ramona have?
b. 10 friends are going to a play. Their tickets altogether cost $90. How much did
each ticket cost?
c. I am making word study books and I need 10 pieces of paper to make each book.
If I have 97 pieces of paper, how many word study books could I make?
d. Mr.Thomas made 97 word study books. If each word study book took 10 sheets
of paper, how many pieces of paper did Mr.Thomas use?
2. Here are some examples of how students solve this problem:

I have 74 crayons and 10 crayons fit in each box. How many boxes can I fill with my
crayons?

Identify each strategy as Unitary (Counting by Ones), Base Ten (Counting by Tens), or
Direct Place Value (63= 6 tens and 3 ones). For each strategy, write questions that would
help the student explain the strategy. These questions can be either to help you
understand the student’s strategy, help her reflect on her strategy, or help her explain
her strategy to other students.

Student work Strategy Questions

Unitary How many groups
of 10 did you
make? How many
groups of 10 do
you need if you
have 74 crayons?
How many more
crayons do you
need to make the
last box full?
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Direct Place Value How many groups
of 10 will you have
if 7 ten is 70?
Why did you start
with subtracting 4
from 74?

Base Ten How many boxes of

crayons will be full?

(4-5) Identify each problem type. Then, solve the problem using an invented
strategy.

3. 39 books were on the top bookshelf. Marcy added 48 more books to the top
shelf. How many books are on the top shelf now?

Add to Result Unknown.

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4. There are 53 regular pencils and some colored pencils in the bin. There are a
total of 91 pencils in the bin. How many colored pencils are in the bin?

One-Part Unknown

5. Do an internet search for STEM lessons. Find a lesson that you think
represents the intent of STEM integration discussed in today’s lecture. Justify
your choice with key elements from the lesson. Include the address of the
lesson you found or upload the lesson on Moodle.

I found a STEM lesson that is an integration of a stem and literacy lesson. In

this lesson, students investigate standard units of measure and sort objects
according to their physical properties before applying them to design a toy box
organizer using the engineering design process. The students will read books on
these concepts to also work on story sequencing, story structure, compare and
contrast, identifying details, sequencing, and summarizing narrative texts.

http://picturestem.org/picturestem-units/second-grade-toy-box/