Lesson Overview
This challenging stage allows students to hone their skills with functions and parameters to solve complex puzzles with grace and efficiency.
Teaching Summary
Getting Started
Activity: Super Challenge - Functions with Parameters
Lesson Objectives
Students will:
- Look for patterns where they can implement functions
- Utilize parameters to make a single function work for multiple problems
Getting Started
Introduction
This lesson gets complicated rather quickly. If your students had an easy time with previous lessons, then they should be able to keep up just fine. If, however, they found the previous stages difficult, you may want to have them revisit Play Lab: Functions with Paramaters first. In this level, students will not only be using multiple parameters iside their functions, they will also be breaking down large problems into smaller parts to find patterns.
Connections and Background Information
PARCC / Smarter Balanced Assessment Skills
- Click / tap
- Drag and drop
- Select object
- Select and drag / slide
ISTE Standards (formerly NETS)
- 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
- 1c. Use models and simulation to explore complex systems and issues
- 4b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
- 6a. Understand and use technology systems
- 6c. Troubleshoot systems and applications
- 6d. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
- CT.L1:3-01 Use technology resources (e.g., puzzles, logical thinking programs) to solve age appropriate problems
- CL.L1:3-02 Work cooperatively and collaboratively with peers teachers, and others using technology
- CT.L1:6-01 Understand and use the basic steps in algorithmic problem-solving
- CT.L2-01 Use the basic steps in algorithmic problem solving to design solutions
- CT.L2-06 Describe and analyze a sequence of instructions being followed
- CT.L2-12 Use abstraction to decompose a problem into sub problems
- CT.L2-14 Examine connections between elements of mathematics and computer science including binary numbers, logic, sets, and functions
- CT.L3A-03 Explain how sequence, selection, iteration, and recursion are building blocks of algorithms
- CPP.L1:6-05 Construct a program as a set of step-by-step instructions to be acted out
- CPP.L1:6-06 Implement problem solutions using a block-based visual programming language
Next-Gen Science Standards
- 3-5-ETS1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
Common Core Mathematical Practices
- 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
- 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- 4. Model with mathematics
- 6. Attend to precision
- 7. Look for and make use of structure
- 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Common Core Math Standards
- 3.MD.C.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units)
- 4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm
- 4.OA.C.5 Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself
- 4.MD.C.5 Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement
- 4.MD.C.7 Recognize angle measure as additive
- 4.G.A.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines
Common Core Language Arts Standards
- L.3.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships
- L.4.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being and that are basic to a particular topic
- L.5.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships
