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Randall GSA: Words Matter

Text Structures

Math: Bridges Unit 6

Math: Division with Fractions

In math we have been working on dividing a fraction by a whole number and dividing a whole number by a fraction. A lot of time was spent thinking about context for these problems! Can we write a story problem in which a fraction of something is divided into smaller parts? Can we write problems in which multiple wholes are broken up into smaller pieces? What does that mean? What does that look like? We worked on many different models and representations for these ideas.

Some sample problems:
Jessie has 1/2 of a pan of brownies. She shares them evenly between her and her two friends. How much of the pan of brownies does each person get? 1/2 divided by 3 = 1/6.

OR

Glen made 5 apple pies for the carnival. If he cuts each pie into sixths, how many pieces of pie will Glen have? 5 divided by 1/6 = 30

Family Metaphor Poems

After learning about specific types of figurative language and practicing identifying them in a variety of texts, we read a poem called "An Ocean of Memories" where the author describes their family as a different parts of the ocean. Then we created a list of possible things we could describe our own families as. We wrote our own family metaphor poems. With this task we also studied the structure of the poem and how the stanzas come together to create the whole text. Check out some examples of our poems!