Are there more tiles with color or tiles that are white?

How do you know?

What do you notice that can help you decide?

1, 2, 3, 4

Seeing mathematics in the world

Attending to and using structure

Comparing quantities

Decomposing and using benchmarks to estimate

Thinking in equal groups

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

Is more of the space covered in white or in color? How could you figure it out? Why might this be different from thinking about how many tiles are white or in color?