Critical and Creative Thinking

During our math time we have been working on number boxes and sharing number talks

It has been amazing to see how many critical thinkers we have in our class.

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Today, one of the many ten frames I showed the children a 10 Frame with 9 dots. I asked to tell me how they knew it was nine.  One of the children said, I counted 5 on the top and 4 on the bottom, I counted by twos and added one, and I know there are nine and one box is empty and nine is one less than 10.  Now that's thinking!!! WOW!

Today Mrs. Mac came and did a great lesson for our gifted time.

Here was her creative thinking lesson where the children had to solve this Exemplar.