Brain Patterns
October 16, 2018
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What do you notice? What do you wonder? What patterns can you see?
Prompts that Spark Discussion...
1 Pattern = Many Patterns
May 25, 2018
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Possible Prompting: What do you notice? What could we draw in the ? to make a pattern? “I saw another
Broken, Cracked
April 26, 2018
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What do you notice? What do you wonder? Image from Salvage Design: You can order prints and see more designs
Which Egg?
March 29, 2018
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Which egg doesn’t belong? Want more Which One Doesn’t Belong? Head over to the site: http://wodb.ca/
Behind The Squares
February 28, 2018
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What is the sum of the numbers covered by the grey squares? How do you know? What did you do?
Two Truths & One Lie
January 16, 2018
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For example here is one statement: “I see MORE than 9 squares.” Is this a truth or a lie? Here
The Doc is in
January 9, 2018
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Draw each outfit set. How does it change for these outfits? How many different outfits now?
Which Character Doesn’t Belong?
January 8, 2018
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Thinking: Love the thinking & reasoning that goes on when we do Which One Doesn’t Belong. They always surprise me
Covered Sums
December 21, 2017
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How many different ways can you determine the sum?
A Pattern with 4
November 29, 2017
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Exemplars: Thank you @MathBeforeBed for helping us with our morning math challenge! pic.twitter.com/80HclV7BAL — Mrs Piacente-Cimini (@spiacentecimini) November 29, 2017
Splat
November 14, 2017
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\ \ What could be the answers if there weren’t the same number of dots under each splat?\ \ Read
We Remember
November 10, 2017
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Thinking from young ones: Math Talk today- Counting poppies and seeing patterns @Breslau_Rm8 Thanks @MathBeforeBed for the picture pic.twitter.com/8shjV6K5j0 —
Kayden’s Scary-ness Chart
October 27, 2017
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\ \ Have your child make his/her own scary-ness chart after!
Mystery Number
October 13, 2017
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Thinking from young ones: Amazing math problem solving today with @MathBeforeBed . Noticed 3 numbers between 6,10,14 so changed guess
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
Jars & Tops
September 22, 2017
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\ \ Do you see any patterns? How many tops? How many jars?
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
September 15, 2017
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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”,
Same & Different
September 4, 2017
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\ \ What shapes are similar? Congruent? Is there any symmetry?\ \ Design a new pattern that has some similarities
Hardest Layer
August 29, 2017
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\ \ Have your child draw the layers if it helps. Ask how they determined how many circles on that
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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