PPS Summer Learning Modules Goes Live June 15th!
A new 10 minute routine your student will be experiencing is called a Dot Talk. In this short routine, students are asked to look at a collection of dots and think about how many dots there are without counting them one by one.
See the example on the left for 3 different ways to “SEE” a collection of 7 dots.
Dr. Jo Boaler, a respected math educator, writes that dot talks are “a powerful learning activity that shows students:
creativity in math
the visual nature of math [and]
that there are many different ways people see math
Some questions you might ask your child are:
How many dots do you see?
How did you SEE the dots?
What’s another way to SEE the dots?