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Student Instructions
1) Study the picture.
2) How many dots in all?
3) Use 
tool to show your visual thinking.
4) Use 
and 
to show and give evidence (reasoning) for your thinking (remember - you want to convince others of your thinking).
5) Can you come up with more ways to figure out how many dots there are?
6) Optional: Make copies of pages and show more ways to count the objects.
7) When done, use 
if you want to return to this later and continue working or 
to finish and save to your journal.
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
https://multiplicitylab.northwestern.edu/project/ltt_di-016-how-many/ This activity is from Jo Boaler, Jen Munson and Cathy William’s book Mindset Mathematics (Grade 1) https://books.google.com/books/about/Mindset_Mathematics_Visualizing_and_Inve.html?id=LjAhEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1 and from the website youcubed.org. Extend: Project on screen and have students show and explain/convince classmates of their reasoning. Ask students to take photos around the school and nature and share/use for future lessons. Ask parents to join in and ask them to take photos and share collections of items for students. Print and leave these out in a center. See youcubed.org and https://multiplicitylab.northwestern.edu/ for more ideas.
