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Smallest and Largest

By Fawn | Published: March 15, 2013

Most of my 6th graders struggled with smallest_and_largest today. Only 4 of 36 students scored 8 out of 8 on it. I offered no help on this except my reading the instructions to them and reiterating that for each operation, the two numbers must be different. I retyped this task from the Noyce Foundation. If you teach 6th […]

Posted in Course 1 (6th Grade Math) | Also tagged arithmetic, basic operations, comparing numbers, dividing by a fraction, fractions, multiplying by a fraction, number sense | Leave a comment

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