Objective:
Understand what an essential question is & is not
Write one effectively
Definition: An essential question lies at the heart of a subject & promotes the asking of more questions to uncover more about the subject.
Example:
Modeling factors of Numbers:
A factor is a number multiplied by another number that gives a product.
every whole number greater than 1 has at least two factors, 1 and itself.
Use 20 tiles to make as many different arrays as you can.
factors are 4*5=20
2*10=20
1*20=20
factors of 20: 1,2,4,5,10 and 20.