Clip 8/41: Standard 3: Construct Arguments & Critiques Using Fraction Multiplication Part 2A
Overview
Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.
As her 4th- and 5th-grade students work to describe and classify their problems, identifying which are more like Jesus’s problem (multiplying fractional quantities) and which are more like Camila’s problem (finding a fraction of a whole), Erika Isomura circulates around the classroom, questioning them and probing their understanding. Two of the problems she has given them do not have visual representations; she invites her students to create drawings of those problems if it would be helpful to their process.