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Which One Doesn’t Belong

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Set up

Prepare these in advance. You can make lists of ideas, or you can make a deck of cards with images or descriptions of four things. For this variation,

Play

the class works together to discover the answers. This activity uses a set of four items, or drawings, where one of the four is the odd one out. Accept any reason for selecting an item as the odd one out as long as that reason has a good explanation.

Math Concepts

Properties of objects

Materials

Random objects, magazine clippings

Players

Whole group

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Example

In this example, each one of these is different from the remaining three in some way. There isn’t always more than one good answer, but you should always be open to surprising ideas.

Goal

Have fun identifying and describing properties of objects.

Goal

Have fun identifying and describing properties of objects.

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