Introduction
You are a very important math teacher who is helping her students practice addition. To help them understanding better, you are using everyday objects. You brought in pictures of apples, bananas, oranges, kiwis, strawberries, and blueberries. You are in charge of making the answer key so your students can see the right answers instead of just hearing them. Throughout the lesson, your students will understand how to add all the way up to ten using all of the same fruits and some different fruits.
Task
You will take a plan to hand out the fruits to your students in four groups of five. The object of this assignment is to make as many combinations of 10 using the same fruit and different fruit. You will be making multiple different combinations to show that there is more than one way to have a right answer and that each way of getting there can be different.
Process
First start by counting to make sure you have enough of each fruit. Starting with the apples, make all the combination of 10 available. Do this also with the oranges, bananas, blueberries, strawberries, and kiwis. After you have finished making equations with the same fruits, continue to make the same equations using different fruits. Don't worry about making all the possibilities, but enough that your students will feel confident in their answers.
Evaluation
Your students will be monitored and helped by four volunteers, one for each group. You and your volunteers will watch each group and help guide each group in their equation making process. As they are still learning how to write numbers, each equation will be written down by the volunteer to keep track of how many the students are making in addition to their accuracy. Their success is not measured by how many they make, but how well they work together and try to make the equations using the same and different fruits.
Conclusion
You will bring all your students together in the end to share they equations they made with the rest of the class. After each group has given at least 3 equations, you will show them the answer key. The visuals of the correct answers along with the guidance provided throughout the process will help bring up the confident in your students abilities. Haiving multiple different fruits in each equation can help display the diversity of answers. Even though their equations will look different, say three bananas + two blueberries + five apples or 7 oranges + three strawberries, the end answer is the same and differences in the process is okay.