5thGradeClassintheMiddleAges/LongDivisionUnit

Classroomlayout:ApriltoMayassignedseating

Goals:

Studentswillachieveconceptualunderstandingandproceduralfluencyinlongdivision
Indivisionwithwholenumberandmixednumberquotients.
Withafocusonplacevalue,includingcancellationofequivalentpowersoften
Witharealworldapplicationhowmanytimesmore?
StudentswillusethisnewlearningtosupportinquiryintoMedievalclassrelations
Studentswillmakecomparisonstoinequityinoursocietytoday.

Objectives

Objectivesbasedonstandards:

Studentswillrepresentwordproblemsasequations.
Studentswillusestrategiesbasedontherelationshipbetweenmultiplicationanddivision.
Studentswillusestrategiesbasedonplacevalue.
Studentswillfindwholenumberquotientsofwholenumberswithuptofourdigit
dividendsandtwodigitdivisors.

Studentswillsolvewordproblemswithdivisionofwholenumbers,thathavewhole
numberandmixednumberquotients.
Studentswillinterpretthefractioninamixednumberquotientasdivisionofthe
numeratorbythedenominator.

StudentswilldescribetheiropinionsabouttheirMedievalFairecharactersqualityoflife
inthecontextofinequityintheMiddleAges.
Studentswillmakecomparisonstoinequityinoursocietyandexpressopinionsonclass.

Additionalobjectives:

Studentswillsetproblemsupintheformatoflongdivision.
Studentswilldemonstrateunderstandingofthevocabularyoflongdivision.
Studentswillusethestepsoflongdivisiontoshowhowtheyreachtheirsolutions.

Standards:

CCSS.math.content.5.NF.B.3

Interpretafractionasdivisionofthenumeratorbythedenominator(
a
/
b
=
a

b
).Solveword
problemsinvolvingdivisionofwholenumbersleadingtoanswersintheformoffractionsor
mixednumbers,e.g.,byusingvisualfractionmodelsorequationstorepresenttheproblem.

CCSS.math.content.5.NBT.B.6

Findwholenumberquotientsofwholenumberswithuptofourdigitdividendsandtwodigit
divisors,usingstrategiesbasedonplacevalue,thepropertiesofoperations,and/orthe
relationshipbetweenmultiplicationanddivision.Illustrateandexplainthecalculationbyusing
equations,rectangulararrays,and/orareamodels.

CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.5.1

Writeopinionpiecesontopicsortexts,supportingapointofviewwithreasonsandinformation.

Scope&Sequence

WehaveaccesstothespecialeducationinstructorforadditionalsupportonMon&Tues

FirstWeek:Focusonconceptualunderstandingdrivinglongdivisionandproceduralfluency.
Assessmentofbackgroundknowledgeofdivisionbasedonstrategiesfrompreviousyear.
Introductiontolongdivisionasaprocesswithanchorcharts,modeling,andnotetaking.
VOCAB:quotient,dividend,divisor,remainder
Aremainderof0signifiesthattheanswercanbewrittenasawholenumber
Aremaindergreaterthan0signifiesthatyoucanwriteitasamixedfraction.
Practicewithwordproblems.

SecondWeek:HW:IXLH4,H12
Howmanytimesbigger?problems
Cancellationofzeroes,placevalue.
PracticewithwordproblemsrelatedtoclassintheMedievalAgesandtoday.

ThirdWeek:Reviewoflongdivision.HW:IXLH11,H13
Howdoweknowwhenalongdivisionproblemiscomplete?
Modificationofconjectures.
Emphasisonquotientswithzeroesinthemiddleorattheendre.placevalue.
Creatingstudyguideswitheachkindofproblemencounteredduringunit.
Summativeassessment.