Before students begin work on the Triangles task, they have a whole group discussion about what does the task asking them to complete/do. Students share ideas on approaches and what might be confusing as they proceed.
Establish Mathematics Goals to Focus Learning
James & Danielle
Two students share their methods for solving the Growing Dots task, one describing recursive thinking (x + 4) and the other presenting an explicit expression (x4 + 1).
Breanna & Cody
After having worked individually to predict the number of faces for a line of 10 connected cubes, the class discusses their predictions attending to two particular student methods–one using repeated addition and the other using multiplication.