Feedback Report

These are the listed manipulatives: Algebra Tiles™• AngLegs®• Centimeter Cubes• Magnetic Percent Bar Answer Boards• Polyhedral Dice• Rainbow Fraction® Circles• Rainbow Fraction® Circle Rings• Rainbow Fraction® Squares• Relational GeoSolids®• Spinners• Two-Color Counters• XY Coordinate Pegboard

Possibly include of pictures of the manipulatives used at bottom right side of Page 1 other than just the Two-Color Counters. Students will be able to visualize the materials.

Possibly include a picture or short description that a Herring is a fish. While it is inferred, it is not clear for all students.

A Color tile key of which represents red tile or yellow tile should be added since it has already been identified that students have trouble remembering what represents negative or positive integers. Also with printing issues being common, the color may not correctly represent what is red or yellow to correspond with what was taught.

*Review with students the meaning of increase and decrease. Explain that they are opposites and increase means more while decrease means less.

*Review with students the meaning of increase and decrease. Explain that they are opposites and increase means more while decrease means less.

This is repeated twice in the same area. Remove one.

In Strand Summary:
The hands-on activities in this strand enable teachers to help students understand the principles of expressions and equations.
Awkward phrasing. Consider:

“The hands-on activities in this strand help students understand the principles of expressions and equations.”

Confusing what is being asked in "Solve It."
"Reread the problem with the students. Have them write their owndefinition of the term zero pairs."
More clarity is needed.

It may be more beneficial to explain what game Elliana would be playing where she has Negative 5 Points to add more meaning. This could be a quiz show like Jeopardy, or a computer game, etc.

To to add clarity to the lesson and the question presented, the "cold winter day" could reflect a 0 degree temperature so that students are not confused by what the starting temperature could be and how many tiles they should have out to model. From there more rigorous questions can be asked where temperatures could be more random.

Could be rewritten for clarity.

“Manipulatives help to bridge during the development of academic mathematical language” This is awkward/vague. What is being “bridged”? Better phrasing is needed.

It could be:

"Students are provided multiple opportunities to share their understanding of the problems. Students are also encouraged to use manipulatives to help bridge understanding during the development of academic mathematical language.”

Instead of "Students know how to find the unit rate" it may be more accurate to state "Students should know how to find the unit rate. . ." This is a reoccurring issue that assumes students are on grade level. From the experience of most educators, this is not always true with mathematics courses.

The word "pegging" is inappropriate to use in middle school text. The verb in the following sentence needs to be replaced.
"Why aren’t we pegging the number of people that Kelly meets each day?"

The sentence for Ask involving fruit and pizza needs to be condensed and reworded. It is very difficult to get through the length of the problem.