Investigations
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Investigations in Number, Data and Space
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Investigations Unit Math Emphases Exemplars Tasks/Location
1. Number Puzzles and Multiple Towers
  • Reasoning about numbers and their factors
  • Solving multiplication problems with 2-digit numbers
  • Understanding and using the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems
  • Representing the meaning of multiplication and division
 CDI
Carpet Caper, Filling the Pool, Great Pizza Dilemma, I-Did-A-Read, Portfolio Pizza Party, Shovel, Shovel, Shovel, What's the Problem? Winning Ticket

CDII
Chick-a-dee-dee, Feverish Freddy, Fun Night, "M&M® Cookie Combos, Lost Count, Meddling with Medals

CDIII
Bobsled Blunder, A Broken Gumball Machine, A Challenge, Hanging Airplanes, Hot Dogs for a Picnic, Jeff's Marble Collection, L's for Linda, Letter Patterns, Lunch at the Hot Dog Cart, Raising Chickens, Saving Money
2. Prisms and Pyramids
  • Translating between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes
  • Structuring rectangular prisms and determining their volume
  • Structuring prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones and determining their volume
 CDI
Spring Seeds, Should We Burst Their Bubble?

CDIII
A Challenge, Painting Plans, A Pyramid of Crunchkins, Spinner Fixing, Tiles for a Bedroom
3. Thousands of Miles, Thousands of Seats
  • Extending knowledge of the number system to 100,000 and beyond
  • Adding and subtracting accurately and efficiently
  • Examining and using strategies for subtracting whole numbers
 CDI
Another Domino Dilemma, Ant in the Well, Camping, Disappearing Cookies, Harvest Dinner, Kwanza Celebration, More for the Money, Pedal Power, Penny a Day, Shopping for Shoes

CDII
Book Club, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite, Galaxy Araca, Getting Ready, Holiday Fair, Skating Trip, To the Detail, A Very Fishy Story, "Planely" a Problem
4. What's That Portion
  • Understanding the meaning of fractions and percents
  • Comparing fractions
  • Adding and subtracting fractions
 CDI
Deluxe Birthday Cake, Disappearing Cookies, Equal Snacks, Great Pizza Dilemma, Is Dan Losing His Marbles? A Problem on the Prairie, Party Seating, Sandbox for Geoffrey, Should We Burst Their Bubble?

CDII
Book Club, Dependable Parent Volunteers, Feverish Freddy, Fun Night, Ollie Owl's Food Court, Taco Spread, Who Owns the Most Land?

CDIII
A Challenge, Feeling Hungry, Lost Spinner, Lugging Water I, A Puzzle, Picture Frames, Should Hannah Play? Spinner Fixing, Painting Plans, Tiles for a Bedroom
5. Measuring Polygons
  • Describing and classifying two-dimensional figures
  • Describing and measuring angles
  • Finding perimeter and area of rectangles
  • Creating and describing similar shapes
 CDI
Carpet Caper, Checkerboard Investigation, Deluxe Birthday Cake, Stained Glass Surprise

CDII
Cookie Cutters, Feverish Freddy, Fun Night, Ollie Owl's Food Court, Who Owns the Most Land? Pattern Block Thinking

CDIII
A Challenge, Hanging Airplanes, Painting Plans, Spinner Fixing, Tiles for a Bedroom
6. Decimals on Grids and Number Lines
  • Understanding the meaning of decimal fractions
  • Comparing decimal fractions
  • Adding decimals
 CDI
Penny a Day, Valentine Candy Challenge, Zeno the Xylophone Maker

CDII
Book Club, Dependable Parent Volunteers, Fun Night, The Price is Right, But Are You? Skating Trip, Who Owns the Most Land?
7. How Many People? How Many Teams?
  • Reasoning about equivalent expressions in multiplication and division
  • Representing the meaning of multiplication and division
  • Solving multiplication problems with 2-digit and 3-digit numbers
  • Solving division problems with 2-digit divisors
 CDI
Carpet Caper, Dominoes, Filling the Pool, More for the Money, Mrs. Hasson's Decorating Dilemma, Playground Committee, What is Fair?

CDII
The Beaver Olympics, Book Club, Goodbye Party Fun, A Stinky Situation

CDIII
Bobsled Blunder, A Broken Gumball Machine, A Challenge, Hanging Airplanes, Hot Dogs for a Picnic, Jeff's Marble Collection, L's for Linda, Letter Patterns, Lunch at the Hot Dog Cart, Raising Chickens, Saving Money
8. Growth Patterns
  • Using tables to represent change
  • Using graphs to represent change
  • Describing and representing situations with a constant rate of change
  • Describing and representing situations in which the rate of change is not constant
 CDI
Great Pizza Dilemma, Spring Seeds, Busy Day, Filling the Pool, I-Did-A-Read, Spring Seeds, Portfolio Pizza Party, Zeno the Xylophone Maker, Blue Print, Busy Day, Pedal Power

CDII
Chick-a-dee-dee, Bridge Building on Lake Chaplain, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! To the Detail, Skating Trip, A Very Fishy Story, Starring the Washington Monument

CDIII
Barney's Bakeries, Batting Practice, A Broken Gumball Machine, Building Towers, Calling All Students, Hanging Airplanes, Help I'm Melting, Improving His Aim, Letter Patterns, L's for Linda, Pattern Block Fish, Pattern-Block Walls, Picture Frames, A Pyramid of Crunchkins, Tiles for a Bedroom
9. How Long Can You Stand on One Foot?
  • Representing data
  • Describing, summarizing, and comparing data
  • Analyzing and interpreting data
  • Designing and carrying out a data investigation
  • Describing the probability of an event
 CDI
Equal Snacks, M&M® Mini-Bus Challenge, Making a Fair Decision, Miss Amico's Birthday Bash, New Year's Party, Portfolio Pizza Party, Should We Burst Their Bubble? Spring Seeds, Theodore Bear

CDII
Bridge Building on Lake Champlain, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! "M&M® Cookie Combos, Fair's Fair, A Lucky Draw, The Price is Right, But Are You? Pattern Block Thinking

CDIII
Barney's Bakeries, Hanging Airplanes, In the Bag, It's Time for a Party, Painting Plans, Pumpkin Character Challenge, Playing Checkers
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