Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
How many dots?
How did you count them?
What about your friends, how did each of them count the dots?
Ask your teacher for some other pictures of dots for you to count and share ideas about how you counted them.