Select a few problems from the Workshop to discuss
as a class. You might choose these problems to represent
common areas of difficulty for students, or
choose problems all or most students would have
solved. Ask students to show or tell their solution
strategy for the problem.
Alternatively, select a group to share the various
ways they represented a number in the Spin a
Number Game.
Ask questions such as the following:
- Show the number on the class number line.
- What number sentence matches with the moves
on the number line? How?
- How can you represent this number with connecting
cubes?
- What number sentence describes the cube representation?
- How do you know that the two number sentences
represent the same number?
- Is there another way to represent the number on
the number line or with cubes?
Assign the Shannon's Spins Assessment Master for
students to complete individually. Provide access to
connecting cubes and 200 Charts.
Use the Shannon's Spins Assessment Master with Feedback
Box to assess students' abilities to represent quantities using
connecting cubes and symbols [E1]; compose and
decompose numbers using ones, tens, and hundreds [E2];
show different partitions of numbers using connecting cubes,
number lines, and number sentences [E3]; make connections
between place value concepts and representations of
numbers with counters, number lines, and number sentences
[E6]; recognize that different partitions of a number have the
same total [E7]; and show work [MPE5].
