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Shoe Graph

Shoe Graph

This is a Video - for grade levels Pre-K, Kindergarten
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Students brainstorm ways to sort their shoes. Later, they graphically organize the data from the sets they created.

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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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