Description
After teaching students strategies and procedures for how to divide, have students complete this fun, engaging, and hands on real-world performance task as another method and form of assessment. Bring in candy and have the students figure out different ways to share the candy evenly among all of the students. See how many ways the students can prove to you the number of pieces that each student should receive. The students need to write a word problem and an equation, draw a model, show their work for the division procedure, and interpret what the remainder means.
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Description
After teaching students strategies and procedures for how to divide, have students complete this fun, engaging, and hands on real-world performance task as another method and form of assessment. Bring in candy and have the students figure out different ways to share the candy evenly among all of the students. See how many ways the students can prove to you the number of pieces that each student should receive. The students need to write a word problem and an equation, draw a model, show their work for the division procedure, and interpret what the remainder means.



