See Think Wonder

See Think Wonder  is a thinking routine from Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

Thinking routines are tools specifically designed to help, support and guide mental processes or thinking.

Thinking routines originated from Project Zero’s Visible Thinking research initiative which included tools that teachers can use to find out more about what their children are thinking.

See Think Wonder is used daily as part of Te Tau o te Rā/Number of the day. 

On the first day ākonga are presented with a picture of something to do with a strand, such as measurement. The first time the Year 1’s do this is with a picture of three objects. One shows a square with 1 Centimeter, a thin line with 1 Millimeter, and a baseball bat with a ruler with the word Meter. Children can talk to their Maths Buddy about what they see, think or wonder about. 

As a group we talk together about the responses ākonga/learners have made. We talk about how small a millimeter is and show it on a ruler. We talk about the length of a centimeter and show it on the ruler and we bring out the meter ruler and talk about it being about the same length as a baseball bat.

On the second day ākonga/learners are presented with a picture of something to do with the number focus. The second day the Year 1’s do this it is with a picture of a grid of numbers which is an addition table where the number 1 is being added to numbers both across and down. We talk about the numbers and how the highlighted numbers on the diagonal are the same. We talk about the numbers that come next.