A unique sculpture greeted students as they entered class today:
There’s a lot of math goodness happening in this picture, but I don’t want to steer conversation in any particular direction right off. Time for some Noticing and Wondering! Students shared their thoughts on the back board:
Most of our class time today will be spent completing a jigsaw activity which guides students through many of the rich connections between Pascal’s Triangle, Combinations and the Binomial Theorem. Knowing that I would eventually talk about Pascal’s Triangle (one of my favorite shares of the year!), I was hoping to see if we could generate ideas on triangular and tetrahedral numbers organically. This visual opener did the trick. And while I ran out of time today for my Triangle chat, it’s in my pocket for tomorrow!
After sharing this experience on Twitter, Annie Fetter (the queen of noticing and wondering) chimed in with her ideas:
So many great ideas for packaging to be had here, but thinking I share it and leave it to my geometry colleagues to explore.
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