LSL Target the Question – 6th Grade Sample Sheet - Lone Star ...

Target the uestion
SIXTH GRADE Target the uestion
Target the uestion
reading if he has 8 chores
to do?
(purple) (yellow) (green) (blue) (orange)
Mia and Lee rode their bikes 7.25 miles to their favorite
place, Fish Ahoy, to eat lunch. Soon a new Fish Ahoy will
open only 3.5 miles from their house. The special of the
day was advertised on a poster.
Number of Books
Number of Books
What time can J.R. start
Monday
Books Books Read Read in in the the Summer
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32
32
30
30 28
28 26
26 24
24 22
22 20
20 18
18 16
16 14
14 12
12 10
10 8
8 6
6 4
4 2
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Kathy KendraStudents William
Students
Jacob
Target the uestion
Third Grade ©2001 Lone Star Learning Week 2
Third Grade ©2001 Lone Star Learning Week 2
SIXTH GRADE Target the uestion
Tuesday
If each ordered a special of
the day and Mia paid with
a $20 bill, what should her
change be?
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How many different
combinations are there of
the variety platter?
Wednesday
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If Mia and Lee rode to Fish
Ahoy to eat twice a week,
how many miles would
they ride? Target
FOURTH GRADE Target the uestion © 2003 Lone Star Learning
Problem Solving Strategies
Act out the problem or
Problem use Problem objects Solving Solving Strategies Strategies
Act out the problem or use
Make
Act
a picture
out the
or
problem
diagram
or use
objects objects
Make Make Make a table picture a picture or or
diagram
Make diagram an organized list
Make Make a table a table
Make
Make
an organized
an organized
list
list
Guess Guess and and check check
Guess and check
Look Look for a pattern
Look for a for pattern a pattern
Work backwards
Use Work Work
logical Backwards backwards
reasoning
Solve
Use
a simpler
logical reasoning
Use problem
Solve logical a reasoning simpler problem
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Solve a simpler problem
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Target the Question is a teacher-friendly tool for teaching problem solving. Target the Question consists of five
colored pockets mounted on a bulletin board with the Question of the Day Background Card. Each of the five pockets
will contain 40 Question of the Day Cards of the same color. The pockets are labeled with the day of the week in which
cards are taken and used. 40 Problem of the Week transparencies are provided, one for each week of the school year,
plus 4 extension sets to be used as optional replacement sets as needed. On Monday, a Problem of the Week is placed
on the overhead projector and the corresponding purple question card is taken from the purple Monday pocket and
mounted on the Question of the Day background card. Students record the problem-solving strategy and their work on
a Student Think Sheet. On Tuesday, the same Problem of the Week transparency is displayed on the overhead projector
while the corresponding yellow card is taken from the Tuesday yellow pocket and a different question is asked about the
Problem of the Week. This process is continued through the week and is started over with a new transparency the next
week. The Student Think Sheet also has an area for students to write and solve their own question using information
from the Problem of the Week Transparency. Target the Question is based on the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and a correlation is provided. A correlation is also
provided to the Texas Essential Knowledge and S
skills. Target the Question is available for grades 1-6 in English and
grades 1-5 in Spanish.
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SIXTH GRADE Target the uestion
Week 7
Monday
Th cost of the platter,
without the drink, is $3.85.
The drink is $1.09. How
much is saved by getting
the special on 2 meals?
Thursday
SIXTH GRADE Target the uestion
If Mia and Lee continue to
eat twice a week, but at the
new Fish Ahoy, how many
fewer miles will they have
to to ride ride their their bikes bikes each each
week?
Friday
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Target the uestion
Week 36: Problem of the Week Transparency
24 feet
Grant and his dad were cutting down shadow dead pine 24 feet
trees for firewood. On Friday, they cut down
an 18-foot tree. After it was cut down, Grant
Grant and his dad were cutting down dead
measured the diameter across the 2-foot high
pine
stump
trees
they
for
left.
firewood.
It was 11
On
inches
Friday,
across.
they
They
cut
down
also cut
an
2-foot
18-foot
logs
tree.
from
After
the trunk.
it was
On
cut
Saturday,
down, they cut Grant down measured a 72-foot tree. the diameter They also across cut logs
the 2-foot 2-foot logs high from stump the trunk. they On left. Saturday, It was they 11
inches cut down across. a 72-foot They tree. alsoThey cut 2-foot also cut logs logs 2-
from feet long the from trunk. its On trunk Saturday, and left a they 2-foot cut stump. down
a Grant 72-foot measured tree. They the circumference also cut logs of 2-feet the base of
long the tree’s from trunk its trunk before and they left cut a it. 2-foot It was stump. about 54
Grant inches measured around. the circumference of the
SIXTH GRADE Target the uestion
base of the tree’s trunk before they cut it. It
was about 54 inches around.
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Sixth Grade © 2002 Lone Star Learning Week 36
Week 36: Daily Question cards (8.5” x 14”) about the problem
of the week. Use one question each day. Students write the
answer on the Student Think Sheet.
How How many many logs logs did did Grant
and and his his dad dad get get from both
trees? trees?
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FIFTH GRADE Target the uestion © 2003 Lone Star Learning
Monday Monday
At At 3:00 p.m., P.M., the shadow of
the
the
shorter
shorter
tree
tree
was
24
24
feet
feet
long? How long was the
shadow
long?
of
How
the
long
taller
was
tree?
the
shadow of the taller tree?
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FIFTH GRADE Target the uestion © 2003 Lone Patent Star Learning Pending Wednesday Wednesday
What was the approximate What was the approximate
radius of the larger
radius
tree
of the larger tree
trunk at the base? (use 3=π)
trunk at the base?
(use 3=π)
Sixth Grade © 2002 Lone Star Learning Week 36
FIFTH GRADE Target the uestion © 2003 Lone Star Learning
Friday
On Saturday, how many
On Saturday, how many cuts
cuts did they have to make?
did they have to make?
Sixth Grade © 2002 Lone Star Learning Week 36
© 2003 Lone Star FIFTH GRADE Target the uestion Learning
Tuesday
What What was was the the approximate
circumference circumference of of the the smaller
smaller tree trunk at the
tree trunk at the base?
base? (use 3=π)
(use 3=π)
Sixth Grade © 2002 Lone Star Learning Week 36
© 2003 Lone Star FIFTH GRADE Target the uestion Learning
Thursday
Student Think Sheet for recording answers to Question of the Day - Students write the problem solving strategy they
plan to use, and show how they use the strategy to solve the problem. Last, they write an answer statement.
Think SheetTarget the Question Name:_____________ Week:_____
Monday Problem Solving Strategy: Student Think Sheet
Monday Problem Solving Strategy:
Answer Statement:
Answer Tuesday Statement: Problem Solving Strategy:
Tuesday Problem Solving Strategy:
Answer Statement:
Answer Statement:
Wednesday Problem Solving Strategy:
Wednesday Problem Solving Strategy:
Answer Statement:
Answer Statement:
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SIXTH GRADE
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(Monday)
(Wednesday)
Thursday Problem Solving Strategy:
Thursday Problem Solving Strategy:
Answer Statement:
Answer Statement:
Friday Problem Solving Strategy:
Friday Problem Solving Strategy:
Answer Statement:
Answer Statement:
Write your own question and solve it.
Write your own question and solve it.
Answer Statement:
Answer Statement:
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