Every three or four days I put a new “answer” on our class Think Math
board. As soon as a new question goes up, students are eager to write a
question that matches the answer on a sticky note and place it on their
class number.
The boys and girls in my class love the open-endedness of this
activity, perhaps because they know there are as many different correct
answers as there are students. While this might seem like a relatively
easy task for students, it takes several weeks of modeling and going
over correct answers before the majority of students are able to
correctly write number stories that match the answers.
