We started today with another number talk and video. This video is my favorite because it's all about how mistakes are good! It's important in my classes that students feel comfortable sharing answers and not being afraid be being wrong. Learning from our mistakes is important and allows our brains to grow. You can watch the video here. Next we did an activity called growing shapes. This activity allows students to look at patters and how they build on one another. Being able to see and understand patterns is one of the Mathematics Practice standards and is integral in being able to solve problems as well as building a strong foundation for algebraic thinking. First, I asked the students to think about how they see this pattern growing: We talked discussed as a class and I drew a representation of how the saw the pattern growing on the board. The kids found it interesting to visualize each other's ideas. There were lots of "oh's" and "I didn't think about it that way's". Finally, I had the students work as a group to use colors to represent the different ways our class saw the pattern growing. Being able to visualize and describe patterns is critical to algebraic skills they will learn later. Eventually, students will be able to see patterns and represent them using graphs and equations. Depending on how much time was left, some of the classes were asked to explain what the 100th case would look like. Aside from the fact that it would be "really big!" they determined that there would be 201 tiles along the bottom and it would be 101 tiles high.
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