{"id":185,"date":"2014-09-12T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/kze\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:20:54","slug":"math-sorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/2014\/09\/12\/math-sorting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting and Inquiry &#8211; How the World Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe KZE explorers had a busy week.<\/p>\n<p>In Math, students had a chance to explore\/play with many different kinds of buttons.\u00a0 They needed to describe the buttons with words such as \u201cred,\u201d \u201clittle,\u201d \u201c2 holes,\u201d \u201csmooth,\u201d etc.\u00a0 They were asked to sort buttons into groups according to these terms.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/kze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2014\/09\/sorting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"79\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/sorting\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sorting.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"765,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sorting\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sorting-224x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sorting-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/kze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2014\/09\/sorting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sorting\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a> This is a\u00a0 foundational math skill that helps students to identify common attributes and begin to see different ways to match and sort objects. \u00a0In essence, it is a methodology for making sense of key mathematical understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, during the introduction to\u00a0our year long unit of \u00a0&#8220;How the World Works&#8221;, students were given a picture of people riding bicycles and another picture of a single bicycle wheel.\u00a0 They used a\u00a0visible thinking strategy titled &#8220;I See, I think, I wonder&#8230;&#8221; to describe\u00a0what they\u00a0observed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the highlight of our conversation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I see a wheel, it is a bicycle wheel&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;it is round, it is a circle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;what did you notice about the circle?&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/kze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2014\/09\/cycle-discussion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"78\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/cycle-discussion\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cycle-discussion.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"765,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cycle discussion\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cycle-discussion-224x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cycle-discussion-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/kze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2014\/09\/cycle-discussion-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cycle discussion\" width=\"319\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;it goes around and around and around&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;it is a cycle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;what is a cycle?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;a cycle can be a circle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;a cycle can be a rectangle, or a triangle.\u00a0 as long as it doesn&#8217;t end&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;it is repeating&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;can you think of anything that can be called a cycle?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the weather&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;recess&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;writing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the earth rotating&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the class schedule&#8221;, &#8220;the day of the week&#8221;, &#8220;and the month of the year&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through the conversation, students made a leap from our picture to a\u00a0basic understanding of the concept of a\u00a0cycle. \u00a0We were able to\u00a0make connections to\u00a0their daily experiences and, like in math, formed a core concept that will serve our ongoing theme of how things work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KZE explorers had a busy week. In Math, students had a chance to explore\/play with many different kinds of buttons.\u00a0 They needed to describe the buttons with words such as \u201cred,\u201d \u201clittle,\u201d \u201c2 holes,\u201d \u201csmooth,\u201d etc.\u00a0 They were asked to sort buttons into groups according to these terms.\u00a0 This is a\u00a0 foundational math skill &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/2014\/09\/12\/math-sorting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sorting and Inquiry &#8211; How the World Works!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-unit-of-inquiry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paOEEZ-2Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/emily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}