2015
Looking to cook pizza for the Mayor?
ROCHESTER, NY
FOR 5TH GRADE APPLICANTS
**ATTENTION PIZZA MAKERS!**
This is the mayor of the fine city of Rochester asking for your help! The hard working people
here at the Mayor’s office love their pizza and our two cooks just moved to Italy to make their
pizza and we are now looking for 2 more cooks, A.S.A.P.!
Our cooks here at the office have lots of responsibilities to handle. We are looking for the best
pizza makers in the business and have them on our team. This job is very important seeing that
we eat pizza every day for lunch. Our cooks must be able to make the pizzas from scratch. This
is not a job for just any two cooks. In order to apply for this job you must fill out the application
so that we can see that you can handle working with different fractions.
Down here at City Hall, we love to have parties and yes, that mean lots of food. We love to try
all different kinds of pizza and always look forward to new, delicious pizza that our cooks can
create. Seeing as spring is approaching, we are trying to host a party to welcome the warm air,
green grass and saying farewell to the snow that has stuck around for too long. We are looking
for your help!
Before you and your partner can start creating your pizzas, you must first fill out the application
to be interviewed. Seeing as you’re a seasoned pizza maker, this should be a breeze to fill out.
In this packet you will find several steps that you must complete and at the end there will be a
final presentation before the interview!
We wish you and your partner good luck in the application process, look forward to trying your
pizza!
Sincerely,
Your Mayor.
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Step 1: Information
Applicant Name: ______________________________ Teacher: ____________
Partner Name: ______________________________ School Number: ________
Job Applying for: _______________________________________
Company Name: _____________________________________
Favorite Types of Pizza: 1) ________________ 2) ___________________
Toppings you dislike: 1) __________________ 2) ___________________
Favorite Place to order pizza: _________________________________
If you had to create a new kind of pizza, what kind would it be? What toppings
would be on it and who would eat it? Write your creation in the space below.
Be specific!
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Step 2: Mixing Ingredients
Seeing as you’ll be working with mixing ingredients in the kitchen, we’d like to see
how you handle doing some math equations. Try your best to complete all of these
equations to the best of your ability. We love to see people trying their very best.
The more questions that you answer correctly, the better your chances you’ll have
get to make us your delicious pizza!
Hint: Leave your final answers in simplest form and show your work.
If you use Fraction strips, turn in to the teacher.
1.)
3
4
=
5.)
1
of 63 =
6.)
1
of 98 =
7.)
4
x 12 =
8.)
x
3
8
5
2.)
6
3.)
3
4.)
1
4
4
3
4
2
of 36 =
x
10
1
12
3
7
x
=
2
5
=
of 144 =
Step 3: Can you handle the situations?
Hint: use fraction strips to help to find the solution
If you use Fraction strips, turn in to the teacher.
1.) Like we said earlier, we want to have a party to say goodbye to winter and hello to
spring. This could be the biggest party of the year so far and we could use your help
making the pizza. We are expecting there to be 150 people at the party. This is more
than we planned but we have ordered enough material to allow 2/3 of the guests at the
party to have a 3rd slice of your pizza. Can you find out how many total slices there will
be?
2.) Before our cooks left, they ordered 42 cans of tomato sauce, but your recipe only calls
for 4/6 of the sauce that they ordered. This being said, how many cans of sauce do we
need for your pizza and how many cans did we save by making your recipe.
3.) Some people have called us asking if we would be offering a healthier pizza crust. We
got so many phone calls that we decided that we would make several health options. We
would like to have the pizza 2/10 Gluten free pizza crust, 3/10 wheat pizza crust, and 5/10
white pizza crust. How many slices of each kind will there be?
4.) We asked some people around the office what their favorite topping on their pizza was
and the top 3 choices were cheese, peperoni, and sausage. The whole pizza (25/25) will
have cheese, 12/25 of the pizza will have peperoni on it and 8/25 will have sausage. Can
you tell us how many slices will be peperoni and cheese, how many will be sausage and
cheese and how many will be just cheese?
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Step 4: Findings
You’ve done all this work and we’d love to hear how you solved your answers. If you could
give us a brief description on how you solved the problems, it would let us know you are
almost ready to start cooking. Include the tools and strategies you used in your
description.
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HELP! Someone here at City Hall asked how many tables would we need if each table sat
10 guests? Also, how many people at each table would get a second slice?
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Step 5: Finale!
You’ve come this far and your one step closer to making that pizza that you make so well.
In this step we need to interview you and your partner together. We would like to give you
some helpful things that we may talk to you about during our interview. You and your
partner should present the information in a way that will standout to us. Don’t be afraid
to be bold. Going above what we ask could help your application stay at the top of our list.
Once again, try to answer these to the best of your ability.
1. Tell us who you and your partner are. Why you chose each other and what your
favorite type of pizza is. Also, tell us why you and your partner are the right cooks
for the job.
2. Choose 3 questions in Step 2 to tell us how you solved them. Include in your
explanation…
i. How each partner approached it (if the same only say once)
ii. Did you use any tools (hands/ drawings, fraction strips)
iii. If fraction strips used, show how.
3. Choose 1 question from Step 3 to explain how it was solved. Include in your
explanation…
i. How each partner approached it (if the same only say once)
ii. Did you use any tools (hands/drawings, fraction strips)
iii. If fraction strips used, show how.
4. Show in a drawing the answer to the question that they asked you for your help in
Step 5. Show in your drawing how many tables there would be and how many slices
each person at each table would get.
If you have time and space, as best as you and your partner can, draw
your pizza that you described in Step 1 with lots of detail.
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Cook’s Rubric
Steps
1. Information
3
2
1
Information is filled
out completely.
Several lines
missing, no pizza
creation.
4 questions
answered correctly.
No Information
provided.
2. Mixing
5/8 questions
answered correctly.
3. Situation
3/4 questions are
answered correctly.
Cook provides clear
answer and shows
work.
2/4 questions are
answered correctly,
some work is shown.
¼ or fewer questions
were answered
correctly, No work
shown.
4. Findings
Question is
answered with detail
and Help question
was solved correctly.
Question is
answered with some
detail, Help question
was solved
incorrectly.
Cooks provided a
presentation that
answered some of
Mayors questions
with minimal detail.
Question was not
answered/ no detail,
Help question was
not answered.
5. Finale
Cooks provided a
presentation that
answered the
Mayors questions
with detail.
3 or fewer questions
are incorrect.
Cooks did not give
presentation/
presentation did not
answer questions
that Mayor asked.
Total: ______/15
-Any cooks earning below a 10/15 will have to meet with teacher to make corrections.
-Any cooks earning a 1 in Steps 2 or 3 will need to sit down with teacher to go over the
questions incorrectly answered. They will need to work on the process of solving
equations like the ones in the packet.
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Cook for the Mayor Teacher Guide
Enduring Understandings:
Many professions use the skill of being able to multiply fractions in everyday life. These
professions would include but not be limited to cooks, chefs, and bakers. Without the proper
use of this skill, these professions would not be able to create the correct mixture.
GRASPS
Goal
The goal is to get you and your partner hired as pizza cooks for the Mayor of
Rochester. The application process is 5 Steps long and at the end they must
have an interview. In the rubric, each step has the required number of
questions the student must get right to earn full credit for that step. If
completed and the student earns a passing grade, then the student and their
partner will be hired as the Mayors new pizza cook.
Role
You are applying for a Pizza cook for the Mayor of Rochester.
Audience The Mayor and their hiring staff.
Situation The Mayor’s old cooks left for Italy and they need 2 new cooks ASAP for the
upcoming party welcoming in the new season.
Product
You will fill out all steps of the application. The end product is a presentation
on what they came across in the process. They will tell the Mayor and the
staff what they found. They will tell how they solved some of their questions
and what methods they used.
Standard The presentation that the students will have to put on for the last step in the
process has some questions that they must answer. There are 4 questions and
each one has at least one component, some questions require more detail to tell
how they came to the conclusion they came to. The cooks are encouraged to
go above and beyond and be bold!
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NYS Common Core State Standards
Mathematical
Practice.1
Math.5.NF.6
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Math.5.NF.3
Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b).
Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in
the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or
equations to represent the problem.
ELA.W.5.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which development and organization are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
ELA.SL.5.5
Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in
presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or
themes
Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed
numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the
problem.
Materials:
Fraction Strips (Teacher Created)
Pencils
Poster Board
Markers
Computer (if needed)
Performance task packet
Essential Questions:
What methods can be used to solve fraction equations?
What kind of model can you use to help you solve the equations?
What is a real world situation that uses fractions?
Learning Outcomes:
5th grade students will be able to complete a performance task from start to finish.
Students will be able to present the information that they found with their partner.
Students will be able to multiply different fractions in the equations.
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