I love the idea of having at least one What do you notice? posters at our Family Math Night events.   I started it last year when I did an event at an IB school and the two teachers I was working with wanted to tie in some of the IB inquiry philosophy.  It was really fun to watch the kids standing in front of the posters trying to ‘notice’ things.  Besides, they got an extra Estimation Jar slip for writing something on the poster.  So they were incentivized.

Since we are launching our newest Family Math Night kit, Gellin’ with Geometry, I wanted to tie this year’s What do you notice? question into geometry.  Below are the ideas I came up with.  The first one reflects the self-similarity of fractals.  The second one ties into one of the Gellin’ stations:  Fraction Action.

It’ll be fun to see some of the things the kids notice.  I’m always amazed at what they come up with.  And that’s what’s so much fun about these questions…they allow for creative, outside-the-box thinking…the kind of thinking we want to develop in all of our students.