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Music Concert: Multiplication and Division Part II

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Stephanie Carver
System:Cullman City
School:Cullman City Board Of Education
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2913
Title:
Music Concert: Multiplication and Division Part II
Digital Tool/Resource:
Music Concert Activity
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

During this learning activity, students will solve a real-life task that allows students to create an array to find the total number of rows of chairs needed at a music concert. Students will write multiplication and division equations and solve them to complete the music concert task. This activity will help students see the relationship between multiplication and division.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 3
3. Solve word situations using multiplication and division within 100 involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities; represent the situation using models, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
When given a variety of word problems involving multiplication and division within 100,
  • Write and evaluate multiplication and division expressions to represent the word situation.
  • Explain and justify solutions using a variety of representations (equal groups, arrays, area models, number lines, tape diagrams).
  • Use the relationship between multiplication and division to write equations with an unknown factor.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Equal groups
  • Arrays
  • Measurement division
  • Factor
  • Product
  • Quotient
  • Partitive division
  • Represent
  • Unknown
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Multiplication situations can be related to division contexts by identifying the total number of groups and the number of items in a group.
  • Strategies to solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Use models, drawings, and equations to represent a multiplication or division situation.
  • Use symbols to represent unknown quantities in equations.
  • Solve word situations with multiplication and division within 100 involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • a word problem with an unknown product is a multiplication problem, and a word problem with an unknown number of groups or an unknown group size can be thought of as a division problem or a multiplication problem with an unknown factor.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.3.3.1: Demonstrate computational understanding of multiplication and division by solving authentic problems with multiple representations using drawings, words, and/or numbers.
M.3.3.2: Identify key vocabulary words to solve multiplication and division word problems.
M.3.3.3: Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
M.3.3.4: Recall basic multiplication facts.
M.3.3.5: Add and subtract within 20.
M.3.3.6: Represent repeated addition, subtraction, and equal groups using manipulatives.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Define pair, odd and even.
  • Recall doubles addition facts with sums to 20.
  • Apply signs + and = to actions of joining sets.
  • Model written method for composing equations.
  • Skip count by 2s.
  • Represent addition and subtraction with objects, pictures, fingers, or sounds within twenty.
  • Understand addition as putting together and subtraction as taking from.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects.
  • Rote count to 20.
  • Notice same/different and some/all.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects.
  • Point to matching or similar objects.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.3.3 Use strategies (arrays, equal groups, manipulatives, etc.) to model multiplication and division equations to find an unknown number.


Learning Objectives:

Students will solve a word problem using multiplication and division involving arrays. 

Students will represent the problem using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number.

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
During/Explore/Explain
Activity:

  1. The teacher will display the "Music Concert Activity" slides. 
  2. Before starting the activity, the teacher will show the title slide. The teacher will ask students, "What are you wondering? What do you think this problem is about?"
  3. The teacher will continue to go through the remaining slides. The teacher will need to make sure the students have their student notebooks for recording information. Slide 3 asks students to draw an array. You may ask your struggling students to build it with color tiles first. 
  4. The teacher will allow students to share their equations and answers to the questions on each slide. (This should spark a class discussion on the relationship between multiplication and division.)
Assessment Strategies:

The teacher will assess the students as they share their equations and answers to check for understanding.


Advanced Preparation:

Students will need a student notebook or something to write on for recording. 

Color tiles will need to be provided to struggling students. They may build the array before they draw it. 

The teacher should preview the Music Concert task and provide a way to display the task.

Variation Tips (optional):
 
Notes or Recommendations (optional):

This activity can stand alone or be used as a During/Explore/Explain activity for the following learning activities:

Arranging Desks: Multiplication and Division Part I (Before activity)

Connecting Multiplication and Division: Part III (After activity)

  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: array, division, equal groups, multiplication, real life task