Teaching Gracefully

In this project students will practice the skills of adding, multiplying, and dividing multi-digit numbers in a fun, engaging, real world situation. The students get to plan their own field trip by researching and choosing a place to go, recording the price to enter and tour the location, use Google Maps to find the distance from your school to the location, find the average price of gas right now, use multi-digit multiplication to find how much transportation/gas will cost to get to your locat

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 wo

Here are 5 real world word problems that involve the process of two step division. Use the first word problem as an example or work through together as guided instruction, then use the rest of the word problems to see if the students can apply the skill of division to solving real world word problems.