March 14, 2015

8 Animated Dots and 1 Powerful Question

Here are 8 dots and 2 questions. One of the questions is very powerful. I hope this short video will cause your perspective to shift multiple times and will allow you to see through the eyes of several of your students.

Here are some recent posts which may also be of interest:

A simple activity to launch a powerful discussion: What is in the Cup?

A highly engaging math activity (and free download) which can also become a powerful formative assessment: Math in Motion

A free, interactive multiplication resource: The Multiplication FLAIR

A powerful, high engaging vocabulary activity (video and free download): My Version of Talk a Mile a Minute

Categories: Animated Posts, Instructional Strategies, Math, Teaching and Learning

Tags: what do you notice

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Steve Wyborney

Steve Wyborney is an award-winning teacher and instructional coach from Oregon. He is well known for his use of instructional technology and his work with mathematics and his passionate belief in the exceptional potential of every student.

8 responses to “8 Animated Dots and 1 Powerful Question”

Mary

April 21, 2018

Steve,
You have been an AMAZING resource for me and my students! THANK YOU!! They beg to do SPLAT and now I’m discovering all your other downloadables. What I love most is that it stretches all learners in an engaging way–every student is successful and we are learning from each other.
Gratefully!
Mary

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1. stevewyborney@gmail.com
  
  May 2, 2018
  
  Thank you, Mary! I’m looking forward to posting even more soon!
  
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Martin

September 6, 2015

Have you seen Jo bowler talk about number talks? You animated your dot talk very well. I would like students to also see 2 groups of 5 but 2 are overlapping. So 2(5)-2.

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1. stevewyborney@gmail.com
  
  September 6, 2015
  
  Hi, Martin. Yes, I have seen many of Jo Boaler’s presentations. I’m glad that you pointed out the connection. I also see the two groups of 5 that you are describing, in which 2 of the dots are overlapping. That is a good visual. By the way, I had never thought of this as an animated dot talk. I really like the phrase you used there!
  
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2. Douglas James
  
  July 2, 2018
  
  This is the first way I saw it too!
  
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Aaron Bieniek

March 17, 2015

Thanks again Steve. “What do you notice?” is one of my favorite questions to ask. My other favorite is “What do you wonder?” I usually ask those in tandem and get a lot of mileage out of them. And I wanted to share how I saw the 8 dots: I saw 10 – 2 because there were two configurations of 5 that shared an “edge”.

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Craig

March 15, 2015

Steve –
Love this stuff! How cool for your students that you bring this work to them. Your creativity is contagious…
I am learning more and more each time you share!
Thanks for sharing!
Craig
#compelledtribe

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1. stevewyborney@gmail.com
  
  March 15, 2015
  
  Thanks, Craig!
  
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