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Wit and Wisdom - Module 1 - Lessons 4-6

Texts

• Amos & Boris, William Steig

• The Lion and the Mouse, Aesop

Learning Targets

• Annotate a text for confusing or important information and for new vocabulary (RL 3.1)

• Generate questions about a new text and make inferences based on text evidence (RL 3.1)

• Complete a story map for Amos and Boris (W 3.2)

• Understand how an author groups related information together and why it is important (RL 3.2)

Math

Module 1 - Topic C

Multiplication Using Units of 2 and 3

In Topic C, students begin building fluency with facts of 2 and 3 using the array model and familiar skip-counting strategies.

Lessons 7 and 8 introduce the new complexity of manipulating arrays to study the commutative property.  Students learn to distinguish rows from columns as they rotate arrays 90 degrees, noticing that the meaning of the factors changes depending on the orientation of the array.  Students write two different multiplication sentences to interpret the same array.  These lessons emphasize the equivalence of facts by demonstrating, for example, that 2 groups of 8 and 8 groups of 2 have the same product.  Students observe the pattern and begin to recognize commutativity as a strategy for solving twice as many facts.

Lessons 9 and 10 introduce the distributive property as a strategy for multiplication.  In Lesson 9, students use arrays to decompose unknown facts as the sum or difference of two known facts.  For example, they analyze an array to see that 7 x 3 can be decomposed as 2 rows of 3 + 5 rows of 3.  In Lesson 10, students learn to write the decomposition as (5 x 3) + (2 x 3) = 21.  They explain each step of the solving process in anticipation of the work they are expected to complete independently on the Mid-Module Assessment.