Lesson 17 Puppies and Tulips

    • Let’s make origami and tell and solve story problems using the words “more” and “fewer.”

Warm-up Notice and Wonder: Puppies and Tulips

What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

11 pieces of small paper, folded into the same shape.

Activity 1 Puppy and Tulip Stories

2 hands folding a small piece of paper.

Problem 1

Small pieces of paper folded and decorated as puppies or tulips.

For each paper you fold, decide if it is a puppy or a tulip:

  • Total:

  • Tulips:

  • Puppies:

Problem 2

Complete the 2 sentences that apply to your story.

  1. There are fewer puppies than tulips.


    There are tulips.
    How many puppies are there?

  2. There are fewer tulips than puppies.


    There are tulips.
    How many puppies are there?

  3. There are more tulips than puppies.


    There are tulips.
    How many puppies are there?

  4. There are more puppies than tulips.


    There are tulips.
    How many puppies are there?

Activity 2 Act it Out

Problem 1

Group A: Read your problems to your partner group.

Problem 2

Group B:

  1. Act out and solve the problems.
    Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, or words.

  2. Write an equation to represent each story problem.

  3. What do you notice about the story problems and the equations you wrote?

Problem 3

Group B: Read your problems to your partner group.

Problem 4

Group A:

  1. Act out and solve the problems.
    Show your thinking using drawings, numbers, or words.

  2. Write an equation to represent each story problem.

  3. What do you notice about the story problems and the equations you wrote?