Meeting 1

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How is a dragon like a grid?!


"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...


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 ...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?
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 ...Drop whatever they are doing and get totally distracted after a big AHA moment?
 ...Notice and share mathematical beauty?
 ...Find the same idea in two or more different contexts?
 ...Explain an idea to someone, correctly or not?
 ...Put a wrong idea to good use?
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 ...Need to "just play” with new objects before paying any attention to suggested activities?
 ...Notice and celebrate successes in math, big or small: jump, high-five a friend, scream “YES!” or say "I guess it was OK"?
 ...Evaluate a task: "I like this problem" or "That's a lot of computations!”
...Switch between representations – words, gestures, objects, graphs, symbols, objects and so on?
 ...Experiment with examples to find out if an idea is right?
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 ...Get lost in weird places switching from objects to pictures, or from pictures to symbols?
 ...Notice a pattern or any general rule, no matter how strange and silly?
 ...Are fascinated by ideas far above their heads, or amused by ideas far below?
 ...Come up with original ways of doing math, right or wrong?
... Anticipate results before the work is all done?
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 ...Persevere, concentrate and cope when the going is tough?
 ...Create a little ritual, repeating a phrase, a song or a gesture in the same circumstances?
 ...Notice a mistake and try to fix it?
 ...Significantly change their math behavior when in a group?
 ...Participate in math-rich dialogues?