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Shopping for Healthy Snacks
Karen Fouts
3rd Grade
Honey Creek Elementary School
Rockdale County Schools
Task
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Overview
In this math problem, the students work in small groups to select a healthy snack combination that totals exactly $3.55. This task combines students’ addition/subtraction fluency with estimating skills.
Performance Task
You have some money to buy snacks. How can you spend exactly $3.55? Find at least three different ways.
Baked chips 45¢ | Milk 86¢ | Hot chocolate 67¢ | Apple 52¢ | Low-fat hot dog $1.25 | Veggie burger $1.44 | Popcorn 49¢ | Orange 62¢ | Banana 87¢ | Bottled water 99¢ | Frozen yogurt bar 39¢ | Raisins 56¢ |
List your three different combinations and the total price for each combination. |
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GPS Addressed
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M3N2. Students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving.
- Use the properties of addition and subtraction to compute and verify the results of computation.
- Use mental math and estimation strategies to add and subtract.
- Solve problems requiring addition and subtraction.
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Video Information
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Use these questions to guide your thinking about some of the important teacher ideas in the lesson featured in the video clip.
- What kinds of questions does the teacher ask to promote students’ problem solving?
- How is the teacher gauging students’ current understandings and building from those understandings?
- Consider the GPS standards listed with this video.How does the lesson featured in this video address each of these?
- What makes this lesson different from lessons you have taught on this topic?
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