Newspaper AssignmentDevlin Article

Math 483

In the town of Mathville of the male adults are married. of the female adults are married.

What fraction of the town’s adults are married?

Solve this.What concepts/skills are involved?What are other ways to solve it?How might a middle school student solve it?How might a high school student solve it?Create variations to make it more interesting/challengingGeneralize? and

Mathematical Practices:How is 7 different than 8?

A person buys 3 slices of turkey. Together they weigh of a pound. His diet only allows him to eat of a pound. How much of the

three slices can he eat and stay on his diet?

SolveSolve multiple waysMS? HS solve it?

Fraction work example:

Bits and Pieces II, connected math 2

Someone ate of the cake, leaving only . If you eat of the cake that is left, how much of the whole cake will you have eaten?

Zack had of the lawn left to cut. After lunch, he cut of the grass he had left. How much of the whole lawn did Zack cut after lunch?

My son drank of the bottle of soda. My daughter then drank of what was left. How much of the whole bottle did my daughter drink?

Solve, model multiple ways.

35 ×

34

3 23 ×214

Model each operation. Create a situation for each multiplication.

2

Solve with a model

Create a word problem for it

Division as partitionHow much is one?

Joe has 5 yards of ribbon to make three bows for a package. How much ribbon should be used for each bow if he wants to use the same length of ribbon for each

Cassie has 1 hours to work on her three projects. If she divides her time evenly, how many hours can she give to each?

Ariel found out that she walks really fast during her morning exercise, she can cover 2 miles in of an hour. She wonders how fast she is walking in miles per hour.

Division as MeasurementHow many are in it?

Birthday party! There are 6 pints of Ben and Jerry’s. Each serving will be of a pint. How many guests can be served?

John has 4 yards of material. Each pattern he makes uses 1 yards of material. How many patterns will he be able to make?

Cynthia is building a patio. Each section requires of a cubic yard of concrete. The truck holds 2 cubic yards of concrete. If there is not enough for a full section at the end, Cynthia can put in a divider and make a partial section. How many sections can she make from one truckload.

Develop Algorithms

12+13

12

13

add…

so, =

Assignments• Read “Developing Understanding

Through Problem Solving” article• Read and Reflect on the 2 articles sent

through e-mail (directions on how to reflect included)

• Read 6.4 (pp224-230) in The Math that every… Consider 1,2 on pg. 230 (for discussion)