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Subject

Mathematics (NYS P-12 Common Core)

Description

Students classify buttons and make disjoint and overlapping Venn diagrams. In an extension, they make and record linear patterns.

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Begin with Buttons: Many Sets of Buttons

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Related Academic Standards

New York State

K.MD.3 Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.3

1.G.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.