Session 2 — Buying the Turkey
Today begins with a gallery walk during which students examine and post comments on each other's posters from Session 1. A math congress then convenes to discuss a few of the strategies and to consider helpful ways to make the problem easier and to keep track. The congress gives you a chance to focus on a big idea or strategy in the students' work that you think will be helpful for your students to discuss.
Preparing for the Math Congress (continued from Day One) Jump to section →
- Conduct a gallery walk for students to review and comment on each other's posters.
- Choose two or three posters to be discussed during the math congress.
Facilitating the Math Congress Jump to section →
- Facilitate discussion of the posters you have chosen.
- Help students see how the different strategies for making the problem "friendlier" are related.
- Students' posters from Session 1
- Sticky notes — one pad per student
- Markers
📋 Tomorrow's materials: the turkey poster (Appendix B) and turkey-chart recording sheets (Appendix C, one per pair), and a large chart pad.
Materials for the next session
- The turkey posterDisplay ↗
- Student recording sheet for the turkey chart — one per pair of studentsDisplay ↗Print/download ↗
- Money — various amounts of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies
- Large chart pad and easel (or chalkboard or whiteboard) — to fill in a matching chart as students share, alongside Appendix C displayed for the class
- Markers
Repeated addition
Skip-counting
Distributive property
Doubling
The ratio table
Open number line
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This session supports development of big ideas, strategies, and models on the Landscape of Learning. Growth toward the standards below comes from sustained, monitored development of those same landscape items across many sessions all year, not from this session, or even this unit, alone.
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Identify arithmetic patterns and explain them using properties of operations.
Construct viable arguments — emphasized as students prepare posters justifying their strategies.
Look for and make use of structure.
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