129 Teacher’s Guide 27021—Mathematics Readers © Teacher Created Materials Introduction Unit 2: Fractions Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races Learning Objectives • Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text. • Write informative/explanatory texts in which students introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. • Understand fractions as quantities formed by equal parts of a whole that can be represented as distances from zero on a number line. Mathematical Practices and Processes • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Model with mathematics. • Attend to precision. Materials • Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races books • copies of student activity sheets (pages 46–51) • paper sentence strips (one per student) • newspaper article about a race, if available TCM 27009 000 Saskia Lacey Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races Lacey Tackle today’s toughest races as you learn about fractions. Marvel as contestants around the world climb, crawl, run, and jump through each race. You’ll see what it takes to conquer a world-class course, fraction by fraction. Understanding Fractions Understanding Fractions Lesson Timeline Before Reading, Mathematics Investigation (pages 42–43) During Reading (page 44) During Reading (page 44) After Reading (page 45) Problem-Solving and Assessments (page 45) 45 minutes 30 minutes 30 minutes 45 minutes 45 minutes Use text features to preview and make predictions about the text. Partition strips and number lines to show equal parts, and solve problems using these models. Identify text features and math models, explain how they enhance understanding, and respond to the Let’s Explore Math sidebars. Write a newspaper article about a race. Review the vocabulary, complete the problem-solving activity, and take the assessments. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 10 © Teacher Created Materials 27021—Mathematics Readers 11 Introduction Unit 2: Fractions Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races Mathematics Vocabulary • equal parts • whole • fraction Before Reading 1. Ask students whether they have ever competed in a race. Generate a list of races, such as running, biking, and swimming. Brainstorm challenges participants might have to overcome for each race. 2. Explain that good readers use text features to overcome the challenges of understanding a text. Explain that sidebars, captions, and diagrams are all helpful text features. 3. Distribute the Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races books to students. Have students use text features to preview the book and predict challenges that athletes might face during each race. 4. Have students predict the mathematics that might be related to the topic based on one text feature from the book. Mathematics Investigation Build Understanding 1. Read aloud from page 28 of the Spectacular Sports: World’s Toughest Races book. Ask students to imagine that Taj and three of his friends don’t want to race the entire course length just yet. To train, they’ll do a relay— they’ll each complete a section of the course. Read the vocabulary words aloud. Guide students to create student-friendly definitions. • What’s the fairest way to compete in a relay? • What makes one part of the whole course equal to another part of the whole course? • What is a math word that describes parts of a whole? 2. Distribute paper sentence strips to students. Explain that each strip represents one whole length of the course. Ask the students how they can use the strips to show the parts of the race that Taj and his three friends will complete. • Have above-level learners use additional strips with differing lengths to show how the equal-sized parts of the course change as the course length is increased or decreased. • Confirm that below-level learners and English language learners have not misinterpreted “Taj and his three friends” as a total of three people. 3. Ask students guiding questions to build understanding. • How many equal parts are in the whole? • How might folding the strip help? • If more friends want to join the relay, what happens to the size of the parts? Mathematics Readers, 2nd Edition Complete Kits Level English Spanish Price Kindergarten 9798765976029 9798765976074 $1,034.87 Grade 1 9798765976036 9798765976081 $1,034.87 Grade 2 9798765976043 9798765976098 $1,034.87 Grade 3 9798765976005 9798765976104 $1,034.87 Grade 4 9798765976012 N/A $1,034.87 Grade 5 9798765976050 N/A $1,034.87 Grade 6 9798765976067 N/A $1,034.87 To review and purchase individual 6-Packs with Lesson Plans and Add-On Packs, see the following pages. MATHEMATICS READERS INSIDE EVERY KIT • 20 math-focused content-area books (6 copies each) • 1 Comprehensive Teacher’s Guide 2ND EDITION Content-Area Literacy MATHEMATICS
[email protected] | 212-371-9199 | www.tcmpubnyc.com
2026-2027 New York City Full Line Catalog
| Title Name |
Pages |
Delete |
Url |
| Empty |
Ai generated response may be inaccurate.
Search Text Block
Page #page_num
#doc_title
Hi $receivername|$receiveremail,
$sendername|$senderemail wrote these comments for you:
$message
$sendername|$senderemail would like for you to view the following digital edition.
Please click on the page below to be directed to the digital edition:
$thumbnail$pagenum
$link$pagenum
