Prompts that Spark Discussion...
Energy Bites
October 2, 2017
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\ \ Watch the making Energy Bites video with your child.\ \ \ \ Ask her what she noticed and
Many Squares
September 25, 2017
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\ \ You can also sum the little squares by adding 1+3+5+7+9+11+13 ((yellow)+(blue)+(green)+(orange)+(red)+(dark blue)+(burgundy)). Since visually this forms a square
Different Sums
September 23, 2017
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\ \ The purple squares can be represented by 1+2+3+4+5+6 and can be visually seen by finding half the area
Jars & Tops
September 22, 2017
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\ \ Do you see any patterns? How many tops? How many jars?
Percent Fill
September 21, 2017
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\ \ Re-colour the picture so that both colour equal in area.\ \ Get ready to yell! Play this video
Wondering Hippos
September 19, 2017
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\ \ Answer together all the wondering questions your child has.\ \ Possible Questions to push the talk further:\ \
Puzzling Dimensions
September 16, 2017
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\ \ You can read more about trying to incorporate math into your puzzle making.\ \
Balanced Diet
September 11, 2017
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\ \ After you discover how to balance the mobile on the right. Draw your own mobiles so that one
A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
September 9, 2017
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Thinking: Sunday morning #tmwyk. It’s so fun to watch L’s problem-solving & listen to her reasoning. Thanks for today’s “mission”,
Equal Grouping
September 3, 2017
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\ \ Get a PDF printable version of this for your child to draw on.\’a0 While most educators and parents
Fast Clapping
September 2, 2017
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\ \ Ask your child how they estimated?\ \ Visit mrorr-isageek.com to see the answer and a lesson involving proportional
Longest Line?
August 31, 2017
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\ \ Today’s prompt is inspired from Desmos. You can keep this conversation going over on their activity “Exploring Length
Missing Card
August 28, 2017
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\ \ Change it up. Re do the questions with saying “more than 20” Thinking: I think I have some
Pentomino Puzzles
July 31, 2017
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\ \ Visit the Desmos activity at\’a0https://goo.gl/eX2u9r\’a0to play some rounds of Pentomino Puzzles. As always, encourage discussion on how you
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