After watching the video, explore the student activities (Franchesca's Fractions, Inigo's Integers, and Ra'Neisha's Rationals) in your journal or download the PDF from the "Materials for Download" area.

These three activities reflect the application of grades 5, 6, and 7 TEKS related to properties of operations and rational number calculations. Students are expected to be fluent with rational numbers by the end of grade 7.

Consider the following questions:

  • How do these activities collectively help build computational fluency?
  • How might strategies based on properties support students struggling with computation as they use a calculator on the STAAR Algebra I end-of-course assessment?
  • How might these strategies support discussions about reasonableness of solutions?
  • How do the properties of operations affect simplifying expressions?
Materials for Download
Fluency Activities from Middle School (PDF) Video Transcript (PDF)