Clip 9/21: Standard 7: Look for & Make Use of Structure Using Fraction Multiplication Part 2A
Overview
Mathematically proficient students…look closely to discern a pattern or structure.
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.