As our third grade students were wrapping up their unit on fractions, they worked in partnerships to prove or disprove conjectures. A conjecture in math is a statement that is made that appears to be true, but hasn't yet been proven.
In partnerships, they worked to create models and examples to prove the statement true or to prove the statement false. After spending time working on them they gathered in larger groups to share their ideas and put it all together. Third graders persevered in this work and really solidified their conceptual understanding of fractions!
