Evaluation for 6.1c
Materials are designed to require students to make sense of mathematics through multiple opportunities for students to do, write about, and discuss math with peers and teachers.
In Modules 1 through 7, the materials are designed to require students to make sense of mathematics through multiple opportunities for students to do, write about, and discuss with peers and teachers. In the "Reflexión" section within Module 2, Lesson 11, the students are tasked to work with a peer to compare the solutions for their Grupo de problemas 1 and 2. Students write 87,063 in the place value template. Then, they write the number in standard, written, and expanded form. Students compare their solutions and discuss how the zero was represented in their solutions and the difference in value. Students discuss how the numbers in written form may be confusing with other numbers in written form. In the "Desarrollo del concepto" section within Module 3, Lesson 1, the materials are designed to require students to make sense of mathematics through multiple opportunities to write about, and discuss math with peers and teachers. During the lesson, the students use differently colored paper strips as manipulatives to represent lengths and solve four different word problems using the paper strips. For example, students use the blue paper strip measuring one inch to determine the length of the yellow strip, which measures three times the blue strip. Students determine that three blue paper strips is the length of the yellow strip. Then, the teacher asks students to write an equation to represent the length of the yellow strip compared to the blue strip. Students write 1 × 3 = 3 as the equation to represent their solution. In the "Desarrollo del concepto" section in Module 5, Lesson 12, the materials are designed to require students to make sense of mathematics through multiple opportunities to write about and discuss math with peers. The teachers direct students to use fractions strips (halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths) and whiteboards. The students organize their fraction strips from greatest to least by halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths. The teachers direct students to discuss their observations with partners. The students discuss how the eighths fraction pieces are the smallest even though the digit is the greatest to make sense of mathematics. In Module 7, Lesson 7, the materials provide opportunities for students to write about and discuss math with peers. During the concept development of the lesson, the students explore three-dimensional solids by identifying, naming, and comparing their attributes, such as faces, edges, and vertices. The teachers direct students to work with a peer and share observations. Students share, "Las latas de sopa son cilindros" and explain how shapes are similar or different: "Es el único sólido que tenemos que tiene algunos triángulos por caras." Students make sense of mathematical concepts by discussing why certain solids, like cylinders, do not have edges.