Math Garden: Squares and Roots
You and your students can find many patterns when exploring squares and roots in math class. Some of your discoveries may never have been identified before. Many will be trivial but exciting to search for, discover, and document nevertheless. Will you find the key to solving 3N+1? Doubt it. Should you write up an article for Scientific American? I suppose you could. Will your students share the energizing buzz of creative discovery while messing around with math? YES!
They will also have opportunities to: use academic language in conversation and writing, make sense of information presented in graphic form, practice sharing mathematical ideas in writing, organize and present data, ask questions, find ways to answer questions they have asked, and dive into an interesting project.
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