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Pizza Dough Party

Which team correctly decided how much of each ingredient is needed to make enough pizza dough for the class pizza party?

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Table of Contents

Skills Focus

  • Build Your Vocabulary: Map a Word
  • Cornell Notes: Writing Math Sentences

Overview and Connect

  • Find Your Purpose for Learning
  • Share Your Personal Connection

Read and Check

  • Share Your Reflections
  • Test Prep Strategy: Error Analysis (Optional)

Analyze / Engage with the Text

  • Highlight and Annotate

Summarize

  • Write a Summary

Develop / Build

  • Share Your Argument Builder

Draft and Review / Create

  • Peer Editing Activity
  • Reflect on Your Writing

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Extension Activities

  • Activity: Measuring in the Kitchen

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S K I L L S F O C U S

Build Your Vocabulary: �Map a Word — Mixed Number �

Synonym (similar or like word)

Antonym (opposite word)

Picture of Vocabulary Word

Vocabulary Word and Definition

Part of Speech

Root Word or Origin

Sentence Using Vocabulary Word

Instructions: Analyzing key vocabulary words will help you better understand the texts you are reading. Word mapping can also help the words "stick" in your memory. Complete the map below with the vocabulary word provided in the title. Use a dictionary if necessary. Fill as many boxes as you can.

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S K I L L S F O C U S

Cornell Notes: Writing Math Sentences

What is a mathematical sentence?

A mathematical sentence is…

How can patterns help you solve problems in math?

Patterns can help you solve problems in math...

How does a mathematical sentence show how numbers are related to each other?

A mathematical sentence shows…

Instructions: Take notes on the Direct Instruction lesson using the organizer below. Then summarize and reflect on the next page.

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Cornell Notes: Writing Math Sentences

Summarize and Reflect

In your own words and in complete sentences, write a 3–4 sentence summary of this Direct Instruction lesson. An accurate summary will cover the lesson's central ideas and include important details to support those ideas.

Record your summary here:

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O V E R V I E W A N D C O N N E C T

Find Your Purpose for Learning

Instructions: When you have finished reading the Overview for this lesson, answer the following questions in the space below:

What would you like to know about how planning plays a role in cooking? What more would you like to know about how we use math to cook?

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O V E R V I E W A N D C O N N E C T

Share Your Personal Connection

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Instructions:�

  1. Think: On your own, think about your experiences related to the topic.
  2. Pair & Share: With a partner, group, or a trusted listener, share the parts of your response that you feel comfortable sharing.
  3. Reflect: If time permits, reflect on your experience. What ideas did others share that you hadn't considered? How were your ideas alike?

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R E A D

Share Your Reflections

Instructions: During or after you have finished reading, find the questions in the text marked Pause and Reflect. These questions may help you understand the text, or they may help you connect the text to yourself, to other texts, or to the world around you.

Use the space on the left below to answer the reflection questions. Then discuss your answers, noting how they were similar or different.

Record “Pause and Reflect” answers here:

Record discussion reflections here:

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S T E P 2 : R E A D

Test Prep Strategy: Error Analysis

Reflect on any multiple choice questions that you got wrong. Taking this step will allow you to avoid making the same mistakes when you see similar questions in the future.

Item

Why was your answer incorrect?

What was the cause of the error?

What made the correct answer right?

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A N A L Y Z E / E N G A G E W I T H T H E T E X T

Highlight and Annotate

In this step, you will analyze the text closely, then discuss your findings to begin developing reasoning for your argument.

  1. Read the text again, highlighting and annotating important details. ��Follow the prompts provided. The highlighting prompts will help you with the final writing task. ��You will find evidence to support your own argument or informational piece, as well as models of excellence that will help you better understand a writer’s craft in narratives and poetry. The evidence you highlight will be available when you begin building your draft in the next step.

  1. If time permits, pair and share your highlights and annotations with a classmate. Pay close attention to this conversation! Your thinking is important reasoning that you may include in your final draft.

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S U M M A R I Z E

Write a Summary

Summaries help you process your thinking about a text and are often a great way to start off an argumentative or informational essay. A good summary shows you have knowledge about a topic.

Practicing summarizing also helps you prepare for the main idea questions posed on many standardized assessments. In addition, summarizing is a helpful skill for working with others, such as when you need to confirm your understanding of what someone else has said. That's a useful skill for all parts of life.

  1. Use the sentence stems provided in the online lesson to summarize the text. Your summary should:
  2. Be brief
  3. Include the main idea and key details
  4. Represent these ideas fairly and accurately �
  5. If time permits, pair and share with a classmate. Read each other’s summary, and discuss how they are similar or different. What did you say were the main idea and key details? Were your summaries fair and accurate? Why?

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D E V E L O P / B U I L D

Share your Argument Builder

When you’ve completed the argument building step, share your results with others, and listen to how they responded to the same question. Ask questions, and give feedback to help strengthen your partners’ reasons and evidence.

Which team correctly decided how much of each ingredient is needed to make enough pizza dough for the class pizza party?

Share Your Argument

Listen and Record Others

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D R A F T A N D R E V I E W / C R E A T E

Peer Editing Activity

  1. Do a self-assessment of your CERCA. Use the online rubric for the lesson on learn.thinkcerca.com, checking each box where you find evidence that you have achieved the criteria.�
  2. Next, collaborate with a classmate to read each other’s drafts. Again, use the rubric to evaluate each other’s work.�
  3. Share insights into what might make your pieces stronger. Find two positive attributes and one area of growth for each draft you review.�
  4. Revise your piece using what you learned from your self-assessment and the feedback from your peers.

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D R A F T A N D R E V I E W / C R E A T E

Reflect on Your Writing

Before you submit your final CERCA, write a brief reflection describing your experience.

An area for growth for me on this piece or in my writing in general is…

The strongest areas of this piece of writing are…

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Through self-assessment and/or peer editing, I learned…

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Extension Activities

The following activities can be used as extensions to this lesson.

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O P T I O N A L E X T E N S I O N : A C T I V I T Y

Measuring in the Kitchen

Note: the “Experiment” portion of this activity can be done at home. The next day, reflect with a classmate on your results and findings.

Materials Needed

  • Measuring teaspoon (note: this is different from a regular spoon that you would use to eat)
  • Measuring tablespoon (note: this is different from a regular spoon that you would use to eat)
  • ¼ cup measuring cup
  • Water

Experiment

  • First, take your measuring teaspoon. Use water from a sink to fill the teaspoon. Then, pour that water into the measuring tablespoon. Count the number of teaspoons that it takes to fill the tablespoon.
  • Next, take ¼ cup. Carefully pour one tablespoon at a time into the measuring cup. Count the number of tablespoons it takes to fill the ¼ cup.

Reflect

  • Partner with a classmate. Did you get the same results? If you needed to fill a full measuring cup with water, how many tablespoons would you need? How many teaspoons would that be?
  • Share and compare with other classmates, and let us know what’s cooking in your classrooms on social media with the hashtag #SparkCourageousThinking!

This activity is adapted from the volume, Using Math in Cooking by Linda R. Baker (Rosen, 2018).

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