How many? How do you know?
Boxed Fruit
How many? How do you know?
I Spy Again…
I spy… 3 candy canes 2 presents 2 snowmen What else can you spy?
I spy scary things…
I spy 11 spiders. I spy 1 pretzel How many hats can you find? I spy the calculator. I spy…
Brain Patterns
What do you notice? What do you wonder? What patterns can you see?
Minions on Hoilday
How many puzzle pieces are in the image above? How did you determine your answer? Curriculum Connection: Grade 1 Grade…
Pepper Colours
How many? What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Kylo’s Missing Something.
How many? How do you know? How did you count?
When?
Discussion Questions: On which day will the package arrive? How do you know? How many days will it take to…
1 Pattern = Many Patterns
Possible Prompting: What do you notice? What could we draw in the ? to make a pattern? “I saw another…
I Spy…
Ask your students to look and share what they see. Potential discussion topics: How many shapes? How many of each…
Notice?
What do you notice? What do you wonder? What shapes do you see? What else do you see? How many…
Car Collection
How many? How many cars? How many of each colour? How can you sort them?
MM’s
How many items can you count? Just count and count.
Broken, Cracked
What do you notice? What do you wonder? Image from Salvage Design: You can order prints and see more designs…
Bank Robbers
How many piggy banks are missing from the middle? How do you know?
Monopoly Deal
Play the Monopoly Deal card game (Affiliate Link). We’ve been playing this game non-stop since we got it! We have…
Two of a Kind
Why are those two the most alike? Which shapes would say are opposites? Why?
Missing Eggs
If you’d prefer a prompt with only one correct answer try this one below.
Which Egg?
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Sums of Money
How many different sums of money can be made with 1 dime, 2 nickels, and 1 quarter? What are those…
Mystery Bank
There are two mystery coins in the piggy bank. What could the coins be to make the total amount of…
Clocks, Clocks, Clocks
Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Behind The Squares
What is the sum of the numbers covered by the grey squares? How do you know? What did you do?
Trash Can Lie Detector
A blank one for you to create your own problems.
Triangle Lie Detector
Here is a blank picture if you’d rather create your own prompt. Number talks with @MathBeforeBed 🙂 pic.twitter.com/y9dKYXS9E6 — Grade…
Lie Detector
And here is a blank picture if you’d rather develop you own Two Truths & One Lie
Two Truths & One Lie
For example here is one statement: “I see MORE than 9 squares.” Is this a truth or a lie? Here…
Steps down
How do you see stack 4? 5? 6? Describe it.
Familiar Face
Count the number of shapes. Count the number of shapes by colour. Count the number of green triangles that could…
Fraction Fill
Can’t see the video? Click through to the post page After estimating when the area is exactly half covered by…
