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Pax on the Move: Many Steps, Many Operations
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Pax the polar bear follows two friends through problems that take more than one step. Students decide whether subtraction equations are true by thinking about nearby round numbers, find a round-trip walk down a school hallway, work out an unknown distance, and total a week of walking. Then they track a step challenge in a table, find the fewest steps needed to reach a goal, and finish with a truck driver's long trip: multiply to find a distance, decide whether she can arrive in time, and subtract to find one day's drive. Hints match common mistakes. 13 questions, about 20 minutes, narrated throughout.
Lesson details
- Grade level
- 4th Grade
- Subjects
- Standards
- 4.MD.A.2
- 4.NBT.B
- 4.NBT.B.4
- Length
- 14 scenes, 13 questions
- What students do
- Multiple choice
- Number sentences
- Typed answer
- Audio
- Includes audio
- Scoring
- Includes scored questions
- Last updated
What's included
- 13 narrated questions about walking, steps and driving
- Typed answers with hints matched to common mistakes
- A number sentence and reasonableness checks
Learning objectives
- Decide whether a subtraction equation is true by thinking about nearby round numbers.
- Solve distance problems that need adding, doubling, multiplying and dividing in order.
- Find a missing amount that brings a total up to a goal, and check it is reasonable.
- Use multiplication and subtraction to answer a two-part driving problem.
