1. Topic-
The learner will be working with division.
 
2. Content-
Key vocabulary in division are quotient, divide, separate, share equally, each, quotient, and every.

Students will be presented with word problems using short stories.

Students will be using hands on manipulatives.

Students will see the division connection with multiplication.
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1. The student will learn key vocabulary terms to division.
2. The student will be able to divide when presented by a word problem.
3. Students will be able to apply division problems with manipulatives independently.
 
4. Objectives-
1. The student will recognize key vocabulary terms in word problems.
2. The student will recognize the teacher's short story as a word problem.
3. The student will learn the division word problems hands on application by using manipulatives.
 
5. Materials and Aids-
1. Zip lock bag of small cubes and rectangle shaped cards.
2. Projector
3. Math journals
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. Mrs. Duran told the students that they will be working with division problems using manipulatives.
2. The teacher told the students that volunteers will come up to her to reenact the stories she will tell.
3. The teacher asks students to take out their journal to write down notes from the projector.
 

B. Development-

1.The teacher told students that the reason they were having a division review is because they were having problems in this area. The students write the notes down on their math journal writing the key vocabulary terms in display.
2. The teacher tells a story to the students about two friends who went to the store to buy 20 Valentine's Day cards. Student volunteers reenact the scene of going to the store and buying the cards and trying to decide how they can split cards into equal parts. Another student suggests they should separate the cards until they both have the same amount of cards so that one won't feel bad for having less.
3. The teacher models this story by using two rectangle shaped cards to represent the two students that went to the store and twenty small cubes representing the Valentine's cards. On the overhead projector she displays a two cards and in between them a division sign suggested by the student. Then she sets the small cubes in each rectangle until they were all split into equal parts. Students count the cubes together as a class as she is playing them down each on the rectangle.
 

C. Practice-

1. The teacher tells another story and the students work on their zip lock bag of small cubes and rectangle shaped cards that were also used by the teacher initially. The teacher guides them and checks their work.
2. The Teacher gives another story and the students perform on their own.
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Students work together to separate the cubes into equal parts in the division problem 16 divided by 4.
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1. The teacher uses technology such as the overhead projector to perform the math problems using manipulatives.
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. The students make the math connection with the division problems using manipulatives to multiplication.
2. The teacher praises the student for making the connection to multiplication.
 

G. Closure-

1. The teacher reviews their independent practice and the students check for their answers.
2. Many students got the answers correct and got the concept of division.
 
8. Teacher Reflection-
The students had fun doing this Valentine's Day theme division problems using a story that they were all entertained with. They were very focused and loved the lesson plan. I could probably say that 99% of the students got the lesson and they were all happy to have had been part of this. Not one student was bored and I think they are very lucky to have such an excellent teacher.
 

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