Pharmacist | Kids Work!

Students will play the role of the pharmacist to understand the importance of math skills in correctly dispensing prescription drugs to patients.

Standards

• 1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • 1.d Evaluate the success of an approach to solve a problem and refine it if necessary.
• 3.ATO Algebraic Thinking and Operations
  • 3.ATO.5 Apply properties of operations (i.e., Commutative Property of Multiplication, Associative Property of Multiplication, Distributive Property) as strategies to multiply and divide and explain the reasoning.
  • 3.ATO.9 Identify a rule for an arithmetic pattern (e.g., patterns in the addition table or multiplication table).
• 4.ATO Algebraic Thinking and Operations
  • 4.ATO.1 Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison (e.g., interpret 35 = 5 x 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5.) Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.
• 4.NSBT Number Sense and Base Ten
  • 4.NSBT.5 Multiply up to a four-digit number by a one-digit number and multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using rectangular ...
• 5.ATO Algebraic Thinking and Operations
  • 5.ATO.2 Translate verbal phrases into numerical expressions and interpret numerical expressions as verbal phrases.
• 5.NSBT Number Sense and Base Ten
  • 5.NSBT.5 Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using strategies to include a standard algorithm.
  • 5.NSBT.6 Divide up to a four-digit dividend by a two-digit divisor, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and the relationship between multiplication and division.