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\"\"<\/a>Our most recent Family Math Night event was done at an International Baccalaureate (IB) elementary school. The two teachers I was working with to organize the event wanted to find a way to include an inquiry-based question for students to answer. Their students have had a lot of practice with inquiry-based curriculm, which is a heavy component in the IB program, so it would have been a missed opportunity had we not tied IB in with math night.<\/p>\n

We decided to come up with the open-ended question, What do you notice?<\/em> for both K-2 and 3-5. Sometimes we spend a lot of time telling kids what to think so leaving the question open-ended gave them an opportunity to do their own thinking. Plus, this type of thinking ties in nicely with the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.<\/p>\n

For K-2, I decided to go with something visual and pulled a design from one of our Nifty Numbers Family Math Night<\/a> banners. For the older students, I went with something a little more abstract…Pascal’s Triangle. Originally I had a visual question for the 3-5 group as well – see photo below – but changed my mind last minute. However, either question would have worked. In fact, the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n

The photo above shows the two questions along with student responses. Students who wrote an answer received an extra raffle ticket to put in the raffle jar.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For<\/a> more What Do You Notice? posters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our most recent Family Math Night event was done at an International Baccalaureate (IB) elementary school. The two teachers I was working with to organize the event wanted to find a way to include an inquiry-based question for students to answer. Their students have had a lot of practice with inquiry-based curriculm, which is a heavy component in the IB program, so it would have been a missed opportunity had we not tied IB in with math night. We decided…<\/p>\n

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