Today’s problem was from this year’s annual meeting of the Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) at the COABE conference in New Orleans. Christin Smith, Patricia Helmuth, and Heidi Schuler-Jones led the group through a series of activities over the course of the day. The theme of the ANN annual meeting was the idea of revealing algebra in basic mathematics. In our CAMI meeting, we explored an activity that starts with adding on a 100-grid and finding patterns and then moves towards generalization.
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We moved shapes around a 100-grid to find patterns that lead to algebraic generalizations.