Students have worked tirelessly to discover the number of pennies in the pyramid video posted last week. We have approached this work as a Think-Pair-Share, which asks students to spend time independently solving the problem. As students feel ready they seek out a peer to compare and discuss their strategies and solutions with. This is the space that mathematizing happens, students debate, conjecture, make changes and ultimately come to a collective understanding of the problem. Finally students are ready to share their learning. They then use the guiding questions: What did you do? Why did you do what you did? What happened? to explain/show their thinking. This stage is when students learn from their peers, discovering different approaches and strategies that they might apply to a new problem. Becoming true mathematicians working in the field the grade 5/6 students have entered a creative and playful mathematical world.
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