What do you notice?

What stands out to you? Why?

What do you wonder?

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+

Seeing mathematics in the world

Posing mathematical questions

Attending to and using structure

Decomposing and using benchmarks to estimate

Seeing and creating patterns

Sorting, organizing, and using attributes

Composing and decomposing with shapes

After the class has discussed the questions above, you can extend this activity by posing the following questions:

Is there a question about this image that you’d like to spent time investigating?

How could you explore that question?

Note: Following up on the questions that students wondered as a class can lead either to individual students exploring the questions of their choice, or the class agreeing on a shared question to explore together in small groups or pairs.