Clip 11/43: Standard 6: Attend to Precision Using Fraction Multiplication Part 2A
Overview
In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other.
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 her students do not have visual representations; she invites her students to create drawings of those problems if it would be helpful to their process.