Prompts that Spark Discussion...

Notice?

What do you notice? What do you wonder? What shapes do you see? What else do you see? How many

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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

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Familiar Face

Count the number of shapes. Count the number of shapes by colour. Count the number of green triangles that could

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Lego Cars

Do you see circles? How many? Do you see rectangles? How many? How many more

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I See…..

I see a circle. What do you see? What shapes do you see? What symmetry do you see?

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Holiday Sort

Showing Their Thinking: Getting into the Christmas spirit with @MathBeforeBed pic.twitter.com/UoR3e5xGdw — Ms. Anthony (@MsAnthony27) December 7, 2017

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Really Big Lights

\ \ Keep the discussion going: See more resources over on\’a0http://mrorr-isageek.com/really-big-lights-a-math-problem/

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Magic Rings

\ \ Imagine we taped to strips/rings of paper together and then cut down the middle of each. What would

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Same & Different

\ \ What shapes are similar? Congruent? Is there any symmetry?\ \ Design a new pattern that has some similarities

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Wooden Logs

\ \ Estimate – How many wooded logs are BEHIND the blue rectangle? How did you estimate?

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Block Tower

\ \ What could you and your child count in this picture? Predict how many more “turns” until it falls

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Canada 150

\ \ Kyle Pearce has shared a math challenge for each day in June to prepare for today, Canada’s 150

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