(15 – 20 minutes)
Student-Centered Learning Option
6.4G Generating Equivalent Rational Numbers
- Allow time for students to read the Tell Me More… section on page 38 and the stepped-out examples on pages 39-40.
- Have students try the You Try It problem on page 39.
- As needed, support student reasoning and productive struggle through questioning (see below).
- Bring students back together as a whole group to debrief the content and examples.
Explicit Instruction Option
- Read the Tell Me More… section on page 38. [6.4G Generating Equivalent Rational Numbers]
- Work through each example. If necessary, use the provided steps.
- Guide students to try the corresponding You Try It problem on page 39.
Instructional Hints
- Provide students with hundreds grids to represent rational numbers in fraction, decimal, or percent form.
- Ask students what fraction or decimal could be added to the given fraction or decimal to make 1.
- Ask students what percent could be added to the given percent to make 100%
Questioning Strategies
- Clarifying Question(s)
- What is the part? What is the whole?
- Focusing Question(s)
- Which representation are you given? Which representation do you need to create?
- What kind of model could you use to represent this number?
- Advancing Question(s) [ask and walk away]
- How might you use a number line to represent this number?
- How might you use a percent bar to represent this number?
- How might you use a hundreds grid to represent this number?
- Assessing Question(s)
- How did you solve the problem?
Assessment Strategies
Formative Assessment
- Assign the Practice questions to students. Use student responses to gauge their proficiency with the content.
- Use the Additional Questions as needed.
