
If I owe 2 dollars more every three days, then how much do I owe EACH day? Posing this purposeful question can create an opportunity to explore and build fractional understanding. Relating it to the discussion immediately preceding this stage: if you owed 2 dollars more every 3 days, then you would have had 2 dollars more 3 days ago. Students may not come up with the last bullet above.

While they fit one equation literally, each one fits all the representations. You could introduce them one at a time on new stickies asking which representation they describe. Students may not come up with the final two bullets. for the right sticky, “I started with one dollar.for the left sticky, “I started with one dollar.putting the negative sign in front of the slope fraction like the Sticky Math Pair that follows.any of the representations from previous stages.Students could create their own representations these might include: The graph is a representation of BOTH stickies.Employing “rise over run” on the right sticky moves you right to left up the line.Employing “rise over run” on the left sticky moves you left to right down the line.The graph is a representation of the right sticky.

The graph is a representation of the left sticky.
