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Panic
Button 3
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Grade
Level: 4
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OBJECTIVE(s):
To explore in base 4
RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Cuisenaire Metric Blocks 3 unit cubes (natural) 3 four rods (purple) 3
four squares (purple) 1 four cube (purple)
ACTIVITIES
AND PROCEDURES:
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Count up to 3 ones and say, one more will make it a four. |
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Place a fours rod by the 3 ones and show that the fours rod has one more
unit than the 3 ones. Then say four has its own place. |
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Take the ones away and show the fours rod. |
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4. Count up to 3 fours and say, one more four will make it a sixteen. |
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Place a fours square to the left of the 3 rods to show that the fours square
has one more rod than the 3 rods. Then say, sixteen has its own place. |
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Take the fours rods away and show the fours squares. |
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Count up to 3 sixteen and say, one more sixteen will make it a sixty-four.
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Place the fours cube to the left of the 3 squares to show that the fours
cube has one more square than the 3 squares. Then say, sixty-four has it's
own place. |
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9. Take the fours squares away and show the fours cubes.
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| SUGGESTIONS/MODIFICATIONS: |
- Have
the students make the materials needed for the project.
- Explain
to the students the importance of the squares of numbers in calculating
math problems quickly and easily.
- Have
the students come up with other ways in which the game can be played.
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| AUTHOR:
Veronica
Paget, Beverly Church, Jim Skibby, Jean M. Hotchkiss,Alice T. Yonemitsu,
Aiko Kimura |
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