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: walczakmarissa@gmail.com