thinking mathematically in daily warm ups marissa walczak @viemath laviemathematique.wordpress.com
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Thinking Mathematically in Daily Warm Ups
Marissa Walczak@viemath
laviemathematique.wordpress.com
About Me
Third year teacher - first year at a new school
Was teaching 6th grade - now teaching high school
University of Illinois grad - GO ILLINI!
What’s the use of a warm up?
Getting student focus at the beginning of class
Getting students ready to do math
Allows teacher to do daily housekeeping
Review/preview
Build math skills
Why I did away with the review/preview warm up
Saw amazing resources and wanted to try them (modeled after @MaryBourassa and @algebrainiac1)
Had 74 minute blocks - figured I could spare 5 minutes
My review/preview was not really engaging - students just went through the motions
Wanted to get my students to really think outside of the box
Implementation• Daily Warm Up Sheet - had to have
out at the start of class• Collected every two weeks - not for a
grade
• Plickers• Random name picker or call on
everyone• Everyone can participate, no matter what
grade they have in classAdjustments• Now on an A-B block
• No more paper - use white boards or don’t write anything
• Reflection on Friday done through Google Form
Examples
Estimation 180
Visual Patterns/Number Talk
101 Questions
Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Would You Rather
Estimation 180• estimation180.com
• Andrew Stadel @mr_stadel
• Overestimate, underestimate, and real estimate
• Reasoning (better than “I guessed”)
• Answers are always given
• Many of these have sequels - related pictures/video
Visual Patterns/Number Talks
• mathtalks.net• visualpatterns.org• Fawn Nguyen
@fawnpnguyen
• Ask students to do without paper and pencil first
• What do you notice? How do you see it changing?
• Hand signal for ready
101 Questions
• 101qs.com• Dan Meyer
@ddmeyer
• Students come up with at least one mathematical question
• Shows a random image or video on each refresh
Which One Doesn’t Belong?• wodb.ca• Mary Bourassa
@MaryBourassa
• Each one can be correct• Ask students which one
they chose on first glance, try to come up with other reasons for each box
• Plickers?
Would You Rather
• wyrmath.wordpress.com
• John Stevens @Jstevens009
• Give students 1-3 minutes to come up with reason on their own (use the internet if necessary)
• Ask for reasoning (math related or not)
• Plickers?
Extra Notes
• Can also be used as a mid-class brain break or to fill an extra few minutes
• You can submit your own for all of these - please do!
• More resources like these will be popping up as people think of them - stay in the loop by being a part of the #MTBoS• Explore #MTBoS to get started
Resources
https://crazymathteacherlady.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/filing-cabinet-of-warm-up-activities/
https://laviemathematique.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/daily-warm-up-routine/
https://algebrainiac.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/made4math-weekly-warm-up-sheet-2-0/
Plan
Questions?
Thank You!
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to share more ideas!
Twitter: @viemath
Blog: laviemathematique.wordpress.com
Email: [email protected]