Day 5

I still had the Starbursts from Thursday's 8th grade irrational-number-exercise, so I pulled them out on Friday with the Algebra kids to have a shot at  pattern#3 .

My thought in using the starbursts instead of the toothpicks had been that the kids could move them around in hopes of finding a shape that seemed to make more sense.  When I suggested it, this is what they did. 

At first glance, I didn't think it had helped, but that group then came up with a curious recursive method that was not like the rest of the class!