Lesson #2 - Augsburg College

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Approximate lesson length: Some lessons can be stretched over multiple days, so this field indicates about
how long the lesson will take. Depending on your group, a lesson may require fewer or more days.
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lesson number that should directly precede the current one. This field will not be included if the lesson can be
taught on its own.
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well with the current one but need not be taught directly before or after.
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Quick Icons
In working with fifth graders, we noticed that there are differences in group dynamics. Some groups are loud
while others are quiet. Some groups thrive on challenges while others occasionally need an easier lesson to help
build their confidence. To address these observations, we classified each lesson into a few helpful categories.
High Energy
These lessons are great for high-energy groups because they include activities that ask the students move
around. If your group has trouble sitting still, or enjoys more active lessons, these lessons may be good choices.
Individual Work and Group Work
While teaching, we noticed that some groups work well together, while other groups work best as individuals
who then come together in the end to discuss what they learned. Thus, to help you distinguish which lessons
may be best for your group, each lesson in this curriculum has either an Individual Work or a Group Work icon.
Group Work lessons encourage and often require the students to work with each other to solve the problems
presented. Some Group Work lessons involve the entire group, while others may break the whole group into two
or three smaller groups. Individual Work lessons provide problems that each student can work on alone. In some
Individual Work lessons, the students will all work on the same problem, while in others each student will solve
a unique problem.
Difficulty Rating
At the top of every lesson you’ll also see either one, two, or three stars, which indicate the Difficulty Rating
of the lesson. If a lesson has one star, it is one of the easier lessons in the book. Easy lessons will still require
the students to think creatively, but they may cover material with which the student has previous experience or
may require little abstract thought. If a lesson has three stars, it is one of the more difficult lessons in the book.
Three-starred lessons explore more complex topics with which the students may have no experience. Often it
will take your students more than one Challenge Math session to fully grasp the concepts in a difficult lesson.
Lessons with two stars fall somewhere in the middle; they may be easy for some groups and more challenging
for others. It is also possible that you could tailor the difficulty of a two-starred lesson to make it easier or
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