Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Opening (_10_ minutes): How will you introduce the instructional objective to the students, “activate” learners,
pre-teach/ preview vocabulary, and prepare them to engage with the lesson content?
“Good morning class! Today we will be learning how to break down multiplication word problems and identify
the different parts. Our objectives are here on the board. (students copy objectives on board)
The problem we will be working on as a class is:
Manny was assigned to bring mini cupcakes to a class party. There are 12 students in his class.
Manny thinks that each student will eat 3 mini cupcakes. How many mini cupcakes should Manny buy?
Before we go ahead and answer the problem, let’s review some relevant vocabulary. The first word is groups,
can anyone explain what a group is in multiplication? (take student answers)
These were all great answers. A group is a set of items. An example would be, if I have money that I need to
split among 4 people, each person is one group.
How about a unit? Does anyone know what a unit is in multiplication? (take answers)
Awesome! A unit is one singular part of a group or set. An example would be, if I have money and I give each
person $3, each dollar is one unit. This means in this example each person has 3 units in their group.
First let’s identify the parts of the problem. What would the 12 students be in this problem? Are they the
groups, the units per group, or the total units in all? (take answers)
Yes, the 12 students would be the number of groups. There are 12 groups in this problem.
Now, the 3 mini cupcakes. Would those be groups, units per group, or total units? (take answers)
The 3 mini cupcakes are the number of units per group. This means that there are 3 units in each group, and
one mini cupcake is one unit.
Finally, what is the problem asking us to solve? (turn and talk, groups share answers)
Awesome thinking everyone. This problem is asking us to find the total units. This means we are looking for
how many mini cupcakes we will need in all.”
PART B:
“Now that we have our problem labeled, let's use this information to draw an array. How many rows will our
array have? Remember what we said would be the rows, and what we said will be the columns (take answers)
Great thinking! The array for this problem will have 12 rows. One row will represent one person.
How many columns will we have? (take answers)
Yes! This array will need to have 3 columns. One column for each mini cupcake one person will have.
Let’s each use this information to draw our array in our notebook. (After they draw, have students come up to
the front to draw their arrays on the whiteboard)
All of us should have an array that looks like this (draw a 12 x 3 array)
What would be our answer using this array? Count the total number of units to find out. (Take answers)
Great job everyone! The answer is 36 mini cupcakes. Each mini cupcake is one unit. “
PART C:
“ Finally, we are going to write a number sentence for this problem. The order of our number sentence should
be (# of groups x # of units per group = total # of units). Who can come up and write the problem on the board
for us? (have student come up to write the sentence).
Great! The number sentence for this word problem is 12 x 3 = 36. Now we will each go off on our own to
complete the worksheet. It follows the same steps we have just done altogether. You can work with your
partner or individually to solve the problems. Afterwards we will come back and go through the answers
together. “
Closing (_10_ minutes): How will you bring closure to the lesson and, by doing so, review and determine what
students have learned?
“Let’s come back together.” *
- Go through each question one by one, allowing pairs to give their answers
- Have students ask questions about each other answers or if they need an explanation
SUPPORTING ALL LEARNERS
As you think about supporting all learners, think about the Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
and utilize resources at the following links:
UDL at a glance: http://www.udlcenter.org/resource_library/videos/udlcenter/udl#video0
Guidelines:http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/tk_procedures.cfm?tk_id=21
Lesson planning: http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/tk_lessons.cfm?tk_id=21
Learner Factors: What will you do to ensure success from all students? Especially consider the needs of
students on Individual Education Plans (IEP), English language learners (at a variety of English language levels),
and students who may need an extended challenge. Highlight all that apply. Good!
Re-read directions
Specific Examples: P1s choose 2 levels of support to explain in detail the differentiation, P2s, P3s and Grad P1s
choose 3 levels of support to explain in detail the differentiation.
Support #1:
Students will be strategically paired to ensure that one student is not doing most of the work. The pairs will be
set so that they each can contribute almost equally.
Support #2:
Students will be given a sheet with the definitions we went through, and the problem we are working on as a
class.
Support #3:
If a student cannot write their answers, someone will be able to transcribe their verbal answers onto the page.
FINAL DETAILS OF THE LESSON
Classroom Management: If teaching a small group or whole class, how will you use classroom routines,
reinforce appropriate behavior, and/or handle behavioral issues? Give one example.
- Students will be prompted to raise their hands and use their classroom voice. If a student is
talking too loudly with their pair, they will be reminded that they should be at a level 2 and not
louder.
Technology: How did you incorporate technology into the lesson?
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Materials: What are the materials that you will need to organize, prepare, and/or try-out before teaching
the lesson?
- Handout for the students with the practice problems
- Whiteboard and dry erase markers
Follow-up: How will you and/or your Supervising Practitioner reinforce the learning at a later time so that
the students continue to work toward the lesson’s overarching goal (i.e., the MA Curriculum Framework
incorporating the Common Core State Standards)?
- Moving forward, the students will use this strategy to label addition, division, and other problems.
They will be asked to label the problems given moving forward. They will also be shown to use
arrays for division problems.