T4T Two Sets, Whose Sets?
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1. Ask: Have you ever played blocks with a friend? Did you build as a team or alone? Discuss with your partners.
2. Display Picture #1.
● Have students share with a partner what they notice and wonder. Partners may use sentence starters: I notice ____. I wonder____.
● Select students to share with the class.
● Allow for a wide variety of responses, while purposely selecting students who could wondered who had more/less. It may be helpful for the teacher to make a T-chart of responses (see right).
3. Display Picture #2.
● Focus student thinking on the task: Dianna and Hannah each get a new set of blocks. Hannah has more blocks than Dianna. Which set is Hannah's?
● Say: Discuss the important details of this problem with your shoulder buddy. Make certain that all students make sense of the question the task is asking.
● Say: Today you are going to work with a partner to solve this problem. You may use any of the tools on your table to help you solve the problem. This includes manipulatives, paper, pencils, and the copy of the task in your journal.