This week we offer you the final installment in a series of videos on our YouTube channel about the seven questions you can ask with Look-Think-Talk activities. We have hundreds of these activities on our website and one way to find just what you’re looking for is by focusing on the central mathematical question you will ask students to think about. Each question can lead to different kinds of big ideas, and in this series of videos we’ll share with you what opportunities posing a particular question can open up.
This week, we focus on the question: What’s missing? This question asks students to look not at what they can see, but what they cannot and imagine what or how many objects it might take to fill in the emptiness. This question requires imagination and possibly spatial reasoning, decomposition, and relating part and whole. Watch our What’s missing? video to see what is possible with this question and give one of these activities a try with your students tomorrow.
To multiplicity, cheers!
Jen Munson and the multiplicity lab group
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