Unit 8
Putting It All Together
Unit Goals
- Students consolidate and solidify their understanding of various concepts and skills related to major work of the grade. They also continue to work toward fluency goals of the grade.
Unit Narrative
In this unit, students revisit major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
In Section A, students reinforce what they learned about fractions, their sizes, and their locations on the number line. In Section B, students deepen their understanding of perimeter, area, and scaled graphs by solving problems about measurement and data. Two of the lessons invite students to design a tiny house that meets certain conditions and to calculate the cost for furnishing it.
Section C enables students to work toward multiplication and division fluency goals through games. In Section D, students review major work of the grade as they create activities in the format of the Warm-up routines they have encountered throughout the year (Notice and Wonder, Estimation Exploration, Number Talk, and How Many Do You See?).
How many do you see? How do you see them?
The concepts and skills strengthened in this unit prepare students for major work in grade 4: comparing, adding, and subtracting fractions, multiplying and dividing within 1,000, and using the standard algorithm to add and subtract multi-digit numbers within 1 million.
The sections in this unit are standalone sections, with no requirement to be completed in order. Within each section, many lessons also can be completed independently of those preceding them. The goal is to offer ample opportunities for students to integrate the knowledge they have gained and to practice skills related to the expected fluencies of the grade.