Page 179 - 6th grade IM flipbook

7.4 Optional Activity: Revisiting Tuna Casserole
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Teaching notes
3. The original recipe called for 6 ounces of tuna for every 3 cups of pasta. Add a line to your diagram to represent the amount of tuna in dierent batches of casserole.
4. How many ounces of soup should you mix with 30 ounces of tuna to make a casserole that tastes the same as the original recipe?
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY
Pacing: 10 minutes for entire activity
This entire activity spans 4 cards. This is card 3 of 4. Student response
3.
4. 50 ounces of soup, because the 50 on the top line of the diagram lines up with the 30 on the bottom line of the diagram.
Support for students with disabilities
Conceptual Processing: Eliminate Barriers. Assist students in seeing the connections between new problems and prior work. Students may benet from a review of dierent representations to activate prior knowledge.
7.4 Synthesis: Revisiting Tuna Casserole
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Let's share our diagrams and look for connections.
Teaching notes
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY
Pacing: 10 minutes for entire activity
This entire activity spans 4 cards. This is card 4 of 4. Activity Synthesis
Select students to present their solutions.
Sequence discrete diagrams rst and double number line diagrams second.
Help students see connections between the two representations.
Support for English Language Learners
Lighter Support: MLR 7 (Compare and Connect). For question 2, have students share various approaches and ask, “What is similar? What is dierent?” between the approaches.