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Shoe Graph

Shoe Graph

This is a Video - for grade levels Pre-K, Kindergarten
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A planning conversation for this lesson is available here.
A reflecting conversation for this lesson is available here.

Students brainstorm ways to sort their shoes. Later, they graphically organize the data from the sets they created.

Why is this important?

Allowing children to define their own shoe categories involves them in important mathematical thinking – making sense of a problem and persevering in solving it, and constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others. Making a real graph and then a pictorial one helps children to understand what graphs represent.

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