The purpose of this activity is for students to ask and answer mathematical questions about their classmates. Students are provided with prompts, such as “Find someone who has more than 5 letters in their name.” They will need to talk to their peers to complete the prompts. If necessary, adjust the prompts to make them more relevant and engaging for your students.

• “What did you do to find someone who has fewer than 5 letters in their first name?” (I asked ___ because I know their name has only 4 letters. I asked everyone how many letters were in their name until I found ___, whose name has only 3 letters.

The purpose of this activity is for students to recognize the different ways that math is around them in their community. Students find an object or objects that fit particular prompts, such as “Find a group of objects that you could use to fill in a 10-frame.” and “Find two objects whose weights you can compare.” When students identify objects in the classroom that fit different constraints, they are taking an important step toward modeling with mathematics (MP4).

• Invite students to share the objects that they found for the final prompt.
• “How did you compare the lengths of the objects?” (We could see that one was longer and one was shorter. We lined them up at the bottom and saw which one stuck out more.)