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PECT Prek-4: Module 3 Questions and
Correct Answers
Teacher is teaching lesson about factors. Gives students 8 plastic
cubes. What question would she ask in order to teach factors?
Ans: How many different rectangles can you make
100/(2/3) is the same as? Ans: 100x3/2
If child has IEP and cutting shapes and pasting to graphic
organizer, what should you do? Ans: Have them draw shapes to
see if they can identify where to put shapes on organizer
If teacher asks a child to cut two rectangles in half in a diagonal,
what are they doing? Ans: practicing right triangles
1x5 rectangle plus 3x5 rectangle. What 2 things are being taught?
Ans: area and multiplication
What is a variable? Ans: x + 4 = 10. What is x?
What is teacher working on with variables? Ans: factoring
How do you build math inquiry and how do they figure out the
answer? Ans: allow students to listen to one another's problem
solving skills; by sharing problems/skills
Why use math journal? Ans: to record strategies children talk
about and build inquiry
There are 6 or 12 problems. Half of them are addition, half
subtraction. All the addition problems have correct answers.
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Majority of subtraction are wrong. What should you do with child
to help them? Ans: teach them to use addition to check
subtraction
What mistake from kids should you look for in subtraction? Ans:
borrowing
What mistake from kids should you look for in addition? Ans:
carrying
Child makes a mistake in a problem. What should teacher work
on? Ans: order of operations or PEMDAS
Teacher has blocks piled up in room and kids have to stack them
vertically. Some come out exactly the same, others have some left
over. Why is the teacher doing this? Ans: to teach even and odd
numbers
What does sorting teach kids? Ans: Allow kids to choose own
characteristics then explain it and teaches items in a set
Purpose of circle graph? Ans: to show parts of a whole
What is an abacus used for? Ans: place value
How do you know if a child displays number sense? Ans: If they
understand it is quantity, not quality/size of an object
If a child sees the same number or elephants and same number of
crayons and understand they are equal, what do they understand?
Ans: number sense
What is counting on? Ans: When a child does not go back to zero
to add 2 things together (ex. 3+3 - 3, 4, 5, 6)
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PECT Prek-4: Module 3 Questions and
Correct Answers
Teacher is teaching lesson about factors. Gives students 8 plastic
cubes. What question would she ask in order to teach factors?
Ans: How many different rectangles can you make
100/(2/3) is the same as? Ans: 100x3/2
If child has IEP and cutting shapes and pasting to graphic
organizer, what should you do? Ans: Have them draw shapes to
see if they can identify where to put shapes on organizer
If teacher asks a child to cut two rectangles in half in a diagonal,
what are they doing? Ans: practicing right triangles
1x5 rectangle plus 3x5 rectangle. What 2 things are being taught?
Ans: area and multiplication
What is a variable? Ans: x + 4 = 10. What is x?
What is teacher working on with variables? Ans: factoring
How do you build math inquiry and how do they figure out the
answer? Ans: allow students to listen to one another's problem
solving skills; by sharing problems/skills
Why use math journal? Ans: to record strategies children talk
about and build inquiry
There are 6 or 12 problems. Half of them are addition, half
subtraction. All the addition problems have correct answers.
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Majority of subtraction are wrong. What should you do with child
to help them? Ans: teach them to use addition to check
subtraction
What mistake from kids should you look for in subtraction? Ans:
borrowing
What mistake from kids should you look for in addition? Ans:
carrying
Child makes a mistake in a problem. What should teacher work
on? Ans: order of operations or PEMDAS
Teacher has blocks piled up in room and kids have to stack them
vertically. Some come out exactly the same, others have some left
over. Why is the teacher doing this? Ans: to teach even and odd
numbers
What does sorting teach kids? Ans: Allow kids to choose own
characteristics then explain it and teaches items in a set
Purpose of circle graph? Ans: to show parts of a whole
What is an abacus used for? Ans: place value
How do you know if a child displays number sense? Ans: If they
understand it is quantity, not quality/size of an object
If a child sees the same number or elephants and same number of
crayons and understand they are equal, what do they understand?
Ans: number sense
What is counting on? Ans: When a child does not go back to zero
to add 2 things together (ex. 3+3 - 3, 4, 5, 6)
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