Lesson 1 Can You Share?

    • Let’s share groups of objects equally with a partner.

Warm-up Notice and Wonder: Sharing is Caring

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

Kids fighting over toy dinosaur.

Activity 1 My Fair Share

Choose a container of counters. Share the counters equally with your partner. Then complete the table to show the total number of objects and how many you each received.

total

my share

my partner’s share

number of leftovers

Activity 2 Share the Marbles

Collection of marbles.

Andre has a collection of 17 marbles. He wants to play a game with his sister. They both need to start with the same number of marbles and they want to use as many as they can.

  1. How many marbles would Andre and his sister get? Would there be any marbles left out of the game? Show your thinking.

  2. What if Andre had 18 marbles? How many would each person get? Would there be any marbles left out? Show your thinking.

  3. What if Andre had 20 marbles? How many would each person get? Would there be any marbles left out?

Practice Problem

Problem 1

  1. Noah and Lin have 13 crayons. Can they share all of the crayons equally with no leftovers? Explain or show your reasoning.

  2. Noah and Lin have 16 colored pencils. Can they share all of the colored pencils equally with no leftovers? Explain or show your reasoning.