Wow!  What a response to the last 2 posts!  In Provide Massive Space to Notice, I detailed how to use repeated dot patterns.  In 180 Opportunities to Notice, I simply provided 10 pages of dot patterns that can be downloaded.  In this post, I would like to give you 2 templates that will allow you to create your own dot patterns.  As the title states, you can truly create 9 identical dot patterns in less than 10 seconds.  As you create your own dot patterns, you will discover that some patterns prove to be exceptionally rich for building number sense.  I’ve chosen 5 examples in the video that are particularly rich.  I challenge you to wonder why that may be true.  Watch the video to learn how to create 9 identical dot patterns in 10 seconds or less.  Then download the 2 templates and let your students amaze you.

Click here to download Template 1.

Click here to download Template 2.

Another resource that may interest you is Andrew Stadel’s Counting Dots post from his Divisible by 3 blog.

Other Posts That May Interest You

Splat! the runaway series with over 140,000 lesson downloads

Cube Conversations includes 80 animated, downloadable highly visual lessons)

My Version of the Talk a Mile a Minute Vocabulary Activity

The Number Concept Map (and PDF)

One of my personal favorite resources:  The Green Light Hundreds Chart

Further Notes

I really like this response from Fred G. Harwood @HarMath  which features some very clever uses of color, segments, semi-transparency, additional empty circles,  and combinations of annotation to represent a wide variety of meaning.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to cut apart the equations from the visual representations to see how students would pair them back up?  Thanks, Fred!