10.6 Small Group · Group 2
Second Challenge Form · Non-Routine Extension · Same Standard, New Problems
math biography · reflect · Procedural Fluency · Real-World Applications
- You already can do this. So we go up a level, not up a number: find what is always true, show it a second way, and be ready to defend it with a reason instead of an answer.
- In September I estimated the Ferris wheel: 20 cars with about 4 riders each is 20 × 4 = 80 riders — 'about 80.'
- Now I can go further with this year's math: at 6 turns an hour, that wheel moves about 80 × 6 = 480 riders per hour.
- Same wheel, same me — but my toolbox grew. That difference IS my math story.
- In September we decomposed 78.5 as 70 + 8.5 and 80 − 1.5.
- This year we learned new ways to say the same number: 78.5 = 157 ÷ 2.
- And with percents: 50% of 157 = 78.5.
- Find one more way to write 78.5 using something you learned this year.
- Now prove it: say why that move had to work at all — not just that it did.
- Sentence frame — convince a skeptic: "My method works because ___ . It would stop working if ___ ."
- math biography (biografía matemática) — The story of your relationship with math — and how it has changed over time.
- reflect (reflexionar) — To look back at what you did, felt, and learned, and think about what it means.
- growth (crecimiento) — The change between what you could do before and what you can do now.
- confidence (confianza) — Trusting yourself to try a problem, even when the first attempt might fail.
- community (comunidad) — The people and places around you — where math shows up outside the classroom.
- Treating your math story as finished — writing the same answers you wrote in Lesson 1-1 instead of looking for what actually changed. The story grows and evolves; a retrospective that copies September has missed the point.
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1 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Percents were new this year. What is 50% of 157?
- A78.5
- B77.5
- C31.4
- D107
Work
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2 OPEN RESPONSE
Write a short letter to your September self. Tell them one thing about their math story that will change, and one piece of advice for the year ahead.
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3 OPEN RESPONSE
We are always growing and changing. Think about who you were five years ago and who you are now. In what ways have you changed? In what ways have you grown?
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4 ERROR ANALYSIS
Fix our table's thinking
- 1The problem:Which of these is the strongest evidence that YOUR math reasoning grew this year?
- 2A classmate at our table answered:You memorized more answers than before
Which step contains the error? Explain the mathematical misconception and write the correct calculation below.
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5 OPEN RESPONSE
In September you estimated 157 riders. This year you learned percents. Show TWO different ways to find 50% of 157, then say which one you would trust more if you had to do it in your head standing at the fair — and why.
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6 OPEN RESPONSE
In September, a rider estimate of 'about 480 per hour' would have been written down and left alone. Now you would check it. Describe how you would decide whether 480 is reasonable WITHOUT recomputing it the same way, and explain what makes a second method a real check rather than just doing the same thing twice.
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Writing Task: Justify why your mathematical solution is accurate and complete.