Teaching Tips: Arrangement 2

Here are some Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions for using this video in a math lesson.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame: Let’s say you were getting ready to play a math card game at school. You can seat two people at a desk, but there are six people who want to play the game together. How many desks would you need and how would you arrange the desks so that everyone will have a seat and can play the game?

Focus: As you watch this video segment, you will see that Matt and Digit have put five tables together to seat twenty workers. Why didn’t this work? How many spaces for seats did they lose?

Follow Up: What happened when Matt and Digit put the five tables together? How many workers were left without a seat? How does Matt figure out what they need to do? At the end of the video segment a new problem arises. Can you explain it?