Boundary Breaker: You have been given a big ALERT project to work on with a partner. What are three characteristics you would want in the partner you choose. Explain your choices.
This morning we finished our final edits to our research and crafted our artifacts! Students who did not complete research projects looked at the Habit of Mind "Questioning and Posing Problems" with our mystery box activity. We discussed quality questioning and narrowing a larger category with general questions rather than specific ones.
Together we read Round Trip by Ann Jonas to highlight creative and flexible thinking. The book is original in that each page tells two stories, one right-side up, and one upside-down!
In our math unit, students competed to build the largest two digit number in our game Card Capers. Students had a tens space and ones space to fill as well as a discard space. When a 0-9 card was turned, they placed the digits one at a time in the space of their choice. without being able to switch and not knowing what the next flip would reveal. We talked about strategies and the place value of digits affecting their magnitude. Students were tasked with finding out how many two digit numbers could be created, considering there was only one of each number and zero could not be used in the tens place without resulting in a single digit number. There was lots of great idea sharing and discussion! We are continuing to work on expressing our thinking and problem solving in writing that is clear and uses mathematical language.
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