The purpose of this activity is for students to solve Add To and Take From problems in the context of money. Students determine how much money each person has and how much money each person will have left after buying school supplies. The choice of coins in each problem invites students to consider both concrete and abstract methods for finding the amount of money left after each purchase. For example, students may consider which coins they could remove from the group of coins to purchase the items in each problem, or they may simply subtract the price of the item from the total value of the coins (MP2). In the Activity Synthesis, students discuss the different methods they used for finding how much money was left.
MLR5 Co-Craft Questions. Keep books or devices closed. Display only the price-list table, without revealing the questions, and ask students what possible mathematical questions could be asked about the situation. Invite students to compare their questions before revealing the task. Ask: “¿Qué tienen en común estas preguntas? ¿En qué son diferentes?” // “What do these questions have in common? How are they different?” Reveal the intended questions for this task and invite additional connections.
Advances: Reading, Writing
Engagement: Provide Access by Recruiting Interest. Provide choice and autonomy. Provide access to plastic or actual coins to represent the money, and base-ten blocks to add and subtract, with a concrete manipulative if needed.
Supports accessibility for: Conceptual Processing, Organization