1. Homework reading Chapter 1 and 2. 1.How did your learning experience prepare you to teach maths? 1.What is going on in classrooms with respect to learning maths from your perspective? 1.Can students learn maths without talking? Support your response. 1.Can students learn maths without real world application? Support your response. Before the January content day please read chapter 3 and 4 in What’s MATH Got to do with it?, by Jo Boaler.

3. Operations with Fractions

5. Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 1.Sherry is making brownies and has cup of butter. If the recipe calls for cup of butter, does she have enough to make a batch? If she has enough butter, how much will she have remaining after making one batch of brownies? If she does not have enough butter, how much more will she need?

6. Operations with Fractions Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 2.Renae has yards of ribbon to make three bows for birthday packages. How much ribbon should she use for each bow if she wants to use the same length of ribbon for each?

8. Operations with Fractions Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 3.Jennifer has a goal of walking 5 miles each week. If she walked miles on Tuesday and miles on Wednesday, did she meet her goal? If she did not meet her goal, how much more will she need to walk? If she met her goal, by how much did she exceed it?

9. Operations with Fractions Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 4.Kevin has chocolate bars to make S’mores. Each S’more requires three-fourths of a candy bar. How many S’mores will he be able to make? How much of a candy bar is left? How much more of a candy bar does he need to make one more s’more?

11. Operations with Fractions Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 5.For those of you who don’t know, Hope has an amazing collection of stuffed bears. She decides to give ALL her bears with red ribbons and some of her bears with blue ribbons to her granddaughter. If she gives of her bears to her granddaughter and the granddaughter discovers that half the bears she received have red ribbons, what fractional part of Hope’s original collection were wearing red ribbons?

13. Operations with Fractions Use pictures, not computation, to solve the following problems. Be prepared to explain your thinking. 6.Chris has hours to schedule two meetings. He figures the Math Task Force meeting will last hours. How much time will remain for the SCMP 2 meeting?

15. Operations with Fractions In your groups write your own problems to go with the following expressions:

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