Pax Plans the Trip: Many Ways to Solve
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About
Plan a museum trip and a movie night with Pax the polar bear. Students compare five classmates' ways to find 45 × 18 (making a friendly number, building from facts, estimating with benchmarks, splitting a factor, and an area diagram), then solve multi-step problems about movie tickets, popcorn and full shows, checking whether an answer makes sense. Every direction is narrated, and wrong answers get a spoken hint.
Lesson details
- Grade level
- 4th Grade
- Subjects
- Standards
- 4.NBT.B.5
- 4.NBT.B.6
- 4.OA.A
- 4.OA.A.3
- Length
- 16 scenes, 15 questions
- What students do
- Multiple choice
- Number sentences
- Typed answer
- Audio
- Includes audio
- Scoring
- Includes scored questions
- Last updated
What's included
- 15 practice scenes with an opening and an ending
- Five worked strategies for 45 × 18 to compare
- Narrated directions and a spoken hint for every wrong answer
Learning objectives
- Find 45 × 18 and use it to decide whether there is enough money, and how much is left.
- Follow five different ways to find the same product, and say what each step does.
- Use a friendly number, then take away, to find a new product.
- Solve a multi-step ticket problem, and calculate instead of guessing when an estimate is too close to call.
