Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers

Lesson 3

Math

Unit 2

5th Grade

Lesson 3 of 20

Objective


Write expressions that represent real-world situations and evaluate them.

Common Core Standards


Core Standards

  • 5.OA.A.1 — Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
  • 5.OA.A.2 — Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. For example, express the calculation "add 8 and 7, then multiply by 2" as 2 × (8 + 7). Recognize that 3 × (18932 + 921) is three times as large as 18932 + 921, without having to calculate the indicated sum or product.

Foundational Standards

  • 3.OA.D.8
  • 4.OA.A.3

Criteria for Success


  1. Make sense of a three-act task and persevere in solving it (MP.1). 
  2. Write an expression or equation to represent a real-world context, including using a letter to represent an unknown (MP.2, MP.7). 
  3. Evaluate an expression that represents a real-world context (MP.2, MP.7). 
  4. Interpret an expression that represents a real-world context without evaluating it (MP.2).

Tips for Teachers


  • Today's lesson is the first one in which students will solve a 3-Act Task in 5th grade. To learn more about this lesson structure, read Dan Meyer's blogpost, The Three Acts of a Mathematical Story.
  • For the Problem Set, let students work on each problem independently and circulate to see whether students are solving correctly. If not, come back together to discuss how/what to draw on a tape diagram and how to represent that tape diagram with an expression, then allow them to try again on their own. 
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Anchor Tasks

25-30 minutes


Problem 1

Act 1: Watch the video The Beanbag Dartboard Round 1 Act One.

a.   What do you notice? What do you wonder?

b.   Based on how you score points in this game, how many points did the girl get? Make an estimate.

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Problem 2

Act 2: Use the following information to write expressions that could represent how the child earned all their points.

  • Here is where the first two beanbags landed:
  • The child threw 3 beanbags in total.
  • The child earned 44 points in total.

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Problem 3

Act 3: Watch The Beanbag Dartboard Round 1 Act Three to see the solution.

Was your estimate reasonable? Why or why not?

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Problem 4

Act 4 (The Sequel): The girl played another round. She represented her tosses with the equation $$(3 \times 5) + 2 \times (1 \times 7) + (2 \times 4) = s$$, where $$s$$ represents the student’s final score.

a.   What was the student’s final score?

b.   What must the student have tossed?

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References

Illustrative Mathematics Video Game Scores

Video Game Scores, accessed on March 20, 2018, 3:23 p.m., is licensed by Illustrative Mathematics under either the CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. For further information, contact Illustrative Mathematics.

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Problem Set

15-20 minutes


Discussion of Problem Set

  • Look at #2. Did anyone solve without finding the total amount earned by both Natalie and Drew? How did you do it? 
  • Look at #3. What expression did you write? How did you use that to figure out what may have happened in Leila’s game? 
  • Look at #4. What expression did you write for Part (a)? Is there more than one correct answer? How did your expression change for when Mr. Lee doubled the number of boxes?

Target Task

5-10 minutes


a.   A baker has 32 ounces of flour. They will use 8 ounces of flour for each of 2 loaves of bread and 5 ounces of flour for each of 3 batches of cookies. 

  • Write an expression that represents the number of ounces of flour left after they use what they need for the bread and cookies. 
  • Then evaluate your expression to determine how much flour the baker has left.

b.   A different baker has 48 ounces of flour. They will use 6 ounces of flour for each cake that they make. Write an equation to show how many cakes they can make with all of their flour. Use $$c$$ as the unknown number of cakes in your question. Do not solve the equation.

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Additional Practice


The Extra Practice Problems can be used as additional practice for homework, during an intervention block, etc. Daily Word Problems and Fluency Activities are aligned to the content of the unit but not necessarily to the lesson objective, therefore feel free to use them anytime during your school day.

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Multiply multiples of powers of ten. Estimate multi-digit products by rounding numbers to their largest place value.

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Lesson Map

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Topic A: Writing and Interpreting Numerical Expressions

Topic B: Multi-Digit Whole Number Multiplication

Topic C: Multi-Digit Whole Number Division

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