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= How is a dragon like a grid?! = toc

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" - Lewis Carroll, //Alice in Wonderland//

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Do you notice how kids...
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 * ** Parent Bingo v1.0: Do you notice how kids... ** ||
 * ** 1 ** ||  ...**Bravely** interact with software or manipulatives, having no clue about the purpose?  ||  ...Answer questions in **math actions** or gestures, rather than words?  ||  ...Find a **loophole** in questions, problems, statements?  ||  ...Ask, "**What if?..**" - however fanciful?  ||  ...Question whether something believable is in fact **right**?  ||
 * ** 2 ** ||  ...Drop whatever they are doing and get totally distracted after a big **AHA moment**?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Notice and share mathematical **beauty**?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Find the **same idea** in two or more **different contexts**?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...**Explain** an idea to someone, correctly or not?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Put a **wrong idea** to good use?  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">** 3 ** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Need to "**just play**” with new objects before paying any attention to suggested activities?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Notice and **celebrate** **successes** in math, big or small: jump, high-five a friend, scream “YES!” or say "I guess it was OK"?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...**Evaluate** a task: "I like this problem" or "That's a lot of computations!”  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Switch **between representations** – words, gestures, objects, graphs, symbols, objects and so on?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Experiment with **examples** to find out if an idea is right?  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">** 4 ** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Get lost in weird places **switching** from objects to pictures, or from pictures to symbols?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Notice a **pattern** or any general rule, no matter how strange and silly?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Are fascinated by ideas **far above** their heads, or amused by ideas **far below**?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Come up with **original ways** of doing math, right or wrong?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ... **Anticipate** results before the work is all done?  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">** 5 ** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Persevere, concentrate and cope when the going is **tough**?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Create a little **ritual**, repeating a phrase, a song or a gesture in the same circumstances?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Notice a **mistake** and try to fix it?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Significantly change their **math behavior** when in a group?  || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> ...Participate in math-rich **dialogues**?  ||