What can you do with a paperclip? What can you do with a grid? Answers to these questions lead participants to explore their own conjectures. This professional development session will help everyone turn their classroom into a Thinking Classroom, where students use Conjectures and Counterexamples to power genuine mathematical experiences. This session is suitable for all ages, math circles and classrooms.

Mathematical Games

Problem Posing

MP4 - Model with mathematics.
MP7 - Look for and make use of structure.
MP8 - Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.