We started off our day today with our first Number Talk. Number talks are when I put a problem up on the board that the students are asked to solve mentally. After the students have had a minute or 2 to think about the answer, we discuss their strategies for solving it. We will continue doing number talks throughout the entire year to help students with their number sense and mental math strategies. Today's number talk problem was 12 x 8. There were some of the strategies from one class: After our number talks, we watched another video about learning math. You can watch the video here. We finished class with an activity called Paper Folding. The purpose of this activity is to get students to start thinking about how they can make convincing arguments. Here were their instructions:
The students found this activity challenging, yet fun. They really struggled with number 3. They kept coming up with a congruent triangle, just folded a different way! We talked about how you could fold something in to fourths by folding it in half and then half again. Then, the students started playing around with how they could fold the square in to halves differently.
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Destiny
9/1/2016 06:59:21 pm
how was #5 completed?
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