Title
Grade
SBAC
Assessment
Claim
Learning Goal
Item Type
Standards
Practice(s)
Depth of
Knowledge
Task Overview
Baking and Bagging the Cookies
3
Problem Solving- Students can solve a range of complex wellposed problems in pure and applied mathematics, making
productive use of knowledge and problem solving strategies.
Develop understanding of multiplication and division by solving
problems using strategies that include creating equal groups of
objects, arrays of objects, and comparisons.
Performance Task
OA.3: Interpret products of whole numbers
OA.2: Interpret quotients of whole numbers
OA.3: Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word
problems
OA.4: Determine unknown whole number in multiplication and
division equations
1, 2, 3, 4, 6
2,3
Students will engage in constructed response contextual tasks
involving multiplication and division. Tasks include a variety of
problem situations (eg., unknown product, group size unknown,
number of groups unknown) of increasing complexity. Students
will represent their thinking in multiple ways (eg., pictorially,
symbolically, textually) to demonstrate conceptual understanding.
Third Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Claim: Develop understanding of multiplication and division by solving problems using
strategies that include creating equal groups of objects, arrays of objects, and comparisons.
Evidence Statement:
Student work is characterized by:
 Representing products and quotients concretely, pictorially, and abstractly.
 Noticing, exploring, and articulating generalizations (ex: patterns and structure) related
to multiplication and division concepts and operations both verbally and in writing.
 Constructing and critiquing arguments to support problem solutions related to
multiplication and division.
 Solving a variety of multiplication and division problems that present situations of
unknown product, group size unknown, and number of groups unknown.
Baking and Bagging Cookies
Cookie Monster is baking cookies and needs to give some cookies away so that he can stop
eating them all. He plans to share the cookies with his friends.
Task One
Answer the questions to help _______.
1. There are 3 bags with 8 cookies in each bag. How many cookies are there in all?
Explain your thinking with a picture and a number sentence.
2. If 72 cookies are packed 8 to a bag, how many bags will Cookie Monster need?
Explain your thinking with a picture and a number sentence.
Task Two
3. A cookie sheet holds 24 cookies. There are 4 cookies in one row. How many rows are there
on one cookie sheet? Draw the cookie sheet with the cookies.
4a. If Cookie Monster needs to bake 56 cookies, how many cookie sheets will he need? Explain
your thinking with a picture or number sentence.
4b. Will all the cookie sheets be full? Why or why not?
Explain your thinking and show your work.
Task Three
5. How many bags of 8 cookies will one cookie sheet make?
Show your work with a picture and a number sentence.
6a. If Cookie Monster received an order for 48 cookies, how many bags of 8 will he need? Draw
and label the bags.
6b. How many cookie sheets will he need?
Show your work with pictures and number sentences.
Performance Task
a.) Cookie Monster has different sized bags. From 1 cookie sheet, if each bag contains 1 cookie,
how many bags will be needed? Explain your thinking in words.
b.) If each bag holds 2 cookies, how many bags will be needed? Explain your thinking with a
picture.
c.) Give at least three examples of how to pack equal-size bags using all the cookies from one
cookie sheet. Explain your thinking with a picture, number sentence, and words.
Baking and Bagging Cookies
Credit for specific aspects of performance should be given as follows:
1. 24 cookies (correct answer)
Explain thinking (this may include a correct process but incorrect
arithmetic)
2. 9 bags (correct answer)
Explain thinking (this may include a correct process but incorrect
arithmetic)
3. Picture of a cookie sheet with 6 rows of 4 cookies each
4. a. 3 cookie sheets (correct answer)
Explain thinking (this may include a correct process but incorrect
arithmetic)
b. No (correct answer)
Response should include some of these “look-fors”
 2 trays will be full and 1 tray will not be full
 24 + 24 = 48 48 is not equal to 56
 56 – 48 = 8
 Picture of 3 cookie sheets (2 are full and one is not)
5. 3 bags (correct answer)
Explain thinking (this may include a correct process but incorrect
arithmetic)
6. a. 6 bags (correct answer)
Picture of 6 bags with either the number 8 written on each bag or a
picture representation of 8 cookies in each bag
b. 2 cookie sheets (correct answer)
Explain thinking (this may include a correct process but incorrect
arithmetic)
Performance Task
a. 24 bags (correct answer)
Explain thinking in words (this may include a correct process but
incorrect arithmetic)
b. 12 bags (correct answer)
Explain thinking with a picture (this may include a correct process
but incorrect arithmetic)
c. Correct answer (at least 3 correct responses)
Work must be shown in at least 3 different methods - words,
pictures, number sentences, charts (this may include a correct
process but incorrect arithmetic)
Points
1 point
1 point
Total
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1 point
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1 point
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Total Points 20 points