Be the Teacher

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Be the Teacher
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Directions

• With your partner, develop 3 word problems which
  involve multiplying decimals by decimals.
• Determine a strategy to use for teaching/showing
  your students how to solve your problems.

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What strategies?

• Think of strategies youve used to help solve
  multiplication of decimals problems.

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Materials you can use

• Base-ten blocks
• Unifix cubes
• Beans
• Graph paper
• Notebook paper
• Pencils
• Crayons
• Colored pencils
• Etc.

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Create your lesson

• Create a presentation for your lesson using
  PowerPoint or Prezi.
• Type you 3 problems into three slides.
• When you present your lesson, youll project the
  problem and talk to the students about how to use
  your strategy to solve each problem.

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Be the Teacher Rubric
5 15 25
Problems Developed less than 2 problems involving the multiplication of decimals. Or developed 3 problems which did not involve the multiplication of decimals. Developed 2 problems involving the multiplication of decimals. Developed 3 problems involving the multiplication of decimals.
Strategy Did not use a strategy to help solve word problems. Used a strategy to help solve word problems.
Presentation PowerPoint presentation/Prezi has less than two different slides to show problems. PowerPoint presentation/Prezi has two different slides to show problems. PowerPoint presentation/Prezi has three different slides to show problems.
Accuracy Accurately solved one problem. Accurately solved two problems. Accurately solved three problems.