Targeted Learning

This lesson is set up to review the following standard: 6.NS Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions. This is part of a series of lessons reflecting areas where students and teachers should spend a large majority of their time in order to meet the expectations of the Standards. It may also be helpful as a review. The power point is helpful because it visually displaces the meta cognition behind the word problem and purposefully

Using the Compare & Contrast strategy in this lesson plan allows students to see similarities and differences in rate problems which has been proven to be the single MOST effective way to raise achievement Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock (2001). This strategy evokes human’s nature ability to make comparisons. By implementing this strategy you lead students through the process by investigating each type of math problem separately identifying the similarities and differences in