6-6.1 Tape Diagrams and Equations

This is an adaptation of the OUR lesson Grade 6 Unit 6 Lesson 1. Student Learning Targets I can tell whether or not an equation could represent a tape diagram. I can use a tape diagram to represent a situation. Lesson Narrative The purpose of this lesson is to help students remember from earlier grades how tape diagrams can be used to represent operations. There are two roles that tape diagrams (or any diagrams) can play: helping to visualize a relationship, and helping to solve a problem. The focus here is the first of these, so that later students can use diagrams for the second of these. In this lesson, students both interpret tape diagrams and create their own. Note that the terms “solution” and “variable” aren’t defined until the next lesson, nor should any solution methods be generalized yet. Students should engage with the activities and reason about unknown quantities in ways that make sense to them. Shout out to Kurt Salisbury for the check-in screen and David Johnston for card sort checks. Questions, concerns, suggestions, errors-- please let me know twitter: @sinpiover2, email: jeff@shosholoza.org Also, feel free to send a tip if this helped you out or if you just want to support this work! Venmo @Jeff-Holcomb-4 Suggestions, fixes, and such-- Thank you to Teacher Munn!

By Jeff Holcomb