We have done a lot of problem solving lately... where I sit back and watch the kids talk to each other and figure things out. The top picture is of the students graphing toy bugs. First, they graphed by color. Then, they graphed by bug type. After graphing we talked about which column had more/fewer or the same.
The bottom picture is of the students working in partners to sort pictures of fruit. I didn't tell them what the pictures were of, or what to do with the pictures. The fruit pictures were in black/white ink, which threw them off for a moment as they are used to sorting by color first. They were talking to each other and comparing charts and very interested, and then sorted by fruit type. After counting the different fruits, they realized that it was the fruit from the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (one apple, four strawberries, etc.).
Just this week they were graphing fruit erasers and I asked them if I had helped them. They looked at each other and got really quiet... their eyes lit up and then they got very excited. "We did it by ourselves!" I told them that made them mathematicians and they were very excited. :)
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