'15-'16 Number Systems - Circle, Triangle, Square

Based on what I’m seeing in my students so far, I think one group will struggle and the other will run with it. The struggling group is too ingrained in the “concrete world” and has trouble thinking abstractly - they need exact rules of how to do things and are having trouble understanding that they are the ones who are making up the rules… The other group doesn’t seem to have as many “rules” that they follow so I think they can do more abstract thinking.