Description
This is math as a real world application. Students will use their knowledge of fractions and decimals in order to take on various roles in a relevant problem. They will determine the cost to replace a home, how long it takes a fire to spread, and decide which emergency supplies to purchase.
Problems focus around 4 different roles:
National Guard soldier
Red Cross worker,
insurance adjuster
Firefighter chief.
It concludes with a bonus activity that challenges students to ideate prototype solutions.
Problems focus around 4 different roles:
National Guard soldier
Red Cross worker,
insurance adjuster
Firefighter chief.
It concludes with a bonus activity that challenges students to ideate prototype solutions.
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Highlights
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Grades
5th - 6th
Subjects
Standards
CCSS5.NBT.A.1
CCSS5.NBT.A.2
CCSS5.NF.A.1
Tags
Pages
9
Answer Key
Not Included
Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
Description
This is math as a real world application. Students will use their knowledge of fractions and decimals in order to take on various roles in a relevant problem. They will determine the cost to replace a home, how long it takes a fire to spread, and decide which emergency supplies to purchase.
Problems focus around 4 different roles:
National Guard soldier
Red Cross worker,
insurance adjuster
Firefighter chief.
It concludes with a bonus activity that challenges students to ideate prototype solutions.
Problems focus around 4 different roles:
National Guard soldier
Red Cross worker,
insurance adjuster
Firefighter chief.
It concludes with a bonus activity that challenges students to ideate prototype solutions.
Report this resource to TPT
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Standards
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CCSS5.NBT.A.1
Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
CCSS5.NBT.A.2
Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.
CCSS5.NF.A.1
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators. For example, 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 + 15/12 = 23/12. (In general, ๐ข/๐ฃ + ๐ค/๐ฅ = (๐ข๐ฅ + ๐ฃ๐ค)/๐ฃ๐ฅ.)
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