Button, Button
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Objective
Students will be able to classify, estimate and count buttons in a set.
Students will be able to construct and analyze a line plot.
Overview of the Lesson
This lesson begins by the teacher reading to the students, The Button Box, by
Margarette S. Reid. This book introduces students to counting and classifying sets of
buttons. Using their own button boxes filled with different buttons, students count
and classify the buttons and record their discoveries in their own book titled, My
Button Box. Students are asked to guess the number of buttons a pair of students
could hold. Each pair takes a handful of buttons and makes a total count. With that
information students are asked to make an estimate of the totals from other pairs of
students in the class. Students examine and discuss the differences in making
guesses and making estimates based on definitive information. Students create and
analyze a class line plot of the data they collected.
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