Boundary Breaker: Students were given some quick thinking math problems and then asked to think of a number between 5-12. For the Boundary Breaker, students had to give their reasoning for why they thought most people chose 7.
We used the book My Teacher Likes to Say by Denise Brennen-Nelson to introduce idioms. Students had a good time pointing them out in conversations throughout the day. We also used the lesson to help us solve some picture plexers from our brain stretcher packet.
Next students worked hard on their chapter 2 check-up from our base 3 math practice. So far, those are looking great!
We finished by introducing part 2 of our exploration unit, Exploring through Problem Solving. We began by looking at the scientific method as a problem solving tool. Today we went through the steps an conducted a class test to see how many random numbers a third grader could hold in their brain without forgetting. Check out our format here. Five was the lucky number that discredited all of our confident hypotheses. Then student groups conducted their own memory experiments to determine if it was more common to be auditory or visual learner.
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