Michael connects a strategy the students used for a previous Quick Image to what
they could do for this one. This helps the students see they can use what they al-
ready know and that there are strategies that they can apply to many situations. He
is also trying to highlight again the idea of using the dots from one of the ten frames
to complete rows of 5 or to make 10 in the other ten frame.By the end of the video, there is evidence that students are using strategies be-
yond simply counting all the dots to determine the total amount of dots in an im-
age. The students talk about how many groups of 5 and 10 there are and how many
groups are left over. Some students use the strategies of thinking about “filling in
the blank spaces” by combining one group of dots with another group of dots.
In the last interview Michael talks about how doing the Quick Image activ-
ity might help students with their work with numbers. By doing Quick Images,
the students might begin to have visual images of certain quantities. It could also
help them with counting on by having a visual image of one quantity and then
counting on from that quantity. It might help them realize that when they are
adding numbers, they can break them up in different ways and combine the parts
in easier ways (if you are adding 8 and 7 you can break up the 8 into 3 and 5 and
add the 3 to the 7 to make 10 and then add the 5). Working with ten frame
Quick Images might also help students with building an understanding of place
value (thinking of numbers in terms of the number of 10s and the number of
leftovers).
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