standard_description: Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this Notice and Wonder is to elicit different questions from students about a story to prepare them for writing their own questions for a math story in an upcoming activity. Although students may notice and wonder many things, the most important discussion point will be the types of mathematical questions that can be asked about the story.
Launch
Groups of 2
Display the questionless story problem.
“What do you notice? What do you wonder?”
1 minute: quiet think time
Activity
“Discuss your thinking with your partner.”
1 minute: partner discussion
Share and record responses.
Student Facing
In the park, there are 37 kids on the soccer field, 18 kids on the tennis courts, and 25 kids at the picnic tables.
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
“What are some mathematical questions that could be asked about this situation?”
Record responses.
“What do these questions have in common? How are they different?”


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