World’s Record Noodle Soup
10 min
Narrative
The purpose of this Warm-up is to introduce the context of a world-record event about the longest continuous noodle, which will be useful when students solve problems about this event in a later activity. While students may notice and wonder many things about the text and the image, the noodle’s length and the number of people sharing the noodle are the important discussion points.
Launch
- Groups of 2
- Consider showing students a world-record image or video of the world’s longest noodle.
- Display the image.
Teacher Instructions
- “What do you notice? What do you wonder?”
- 1 minute: quiet think time
- 1 minute: partner discussion
- Share and record responses.
Student Task
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
A Chinese food company holds the world’s record for making the longest noodle. The noodle measured about 10,119 feet.
Sample Response
Sample responses:
Students may notice:
- That is a really long noodle.
- The noodle is in a big bowl.
- There are several people making the noodle.
- How long did it take them to make the noodle?
- Why are they making the noodle?
- How did they cook it?
Activity Synthesis (Teacher Notes)
- “What is something else that is about 10,000 feet long?” (That is about how high people are when they skydive. It is about 2 miles.)
- “These pictures show the world’s longest noodle being made. We are going to solve some problems about this event.”
Standards
Building Toward
- 5.NBT.6·Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
- 5.NBT.B.6·Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
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World’s Record Noodle Soup
10 min
Narrative
The purpose of this Warm-up is to introduce the context of a world-record event about the longest continuous noodle, which will be useful when students solve problems about this event in a later activity. While students may notice and wonder many things about the text and the image, the noodle’s length and the number of people sharing the noodle are the important discussion points.
Launch
- Groups of 2
- Consider showing students a world-record image or video of the world’s longest noodle.
- Display the image.
Teacher Instructions
- “What do you notice? What do you wonder?”
- 1 minute: quiet think time
- 1 minute: partner discussion
- Share and record responses.
Student Task
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
A Chinese food company holds the world’s record for making the longest noodle. The noodle measured about 10,119 feet.
Sample Response
Sample responses:
Students may notice:
- That is a really long noodle.
- The noodle is in a big bowl.
- There are several people making the noodle.
- How long did it take them to make the noodle?
- Why are they making the noodle?
- How did they cook it?
Activity Synthesis (Teacher Notes)
- “What is something else that is about 10,000 feet long?” (That is about how high people are when they skydive. It is about 2 miles.)
- “These pictures show the world’s longest noodle being made. We are going to solve some problems about this event.”
Standards
Building Toward
- 5.NBT.6·Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
- 5.NBT.B.6·Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.