Every day when my students enter the classroom, they have a set of 5 warm-up problems awaiting them. The first 5-10 minutes of each class period are spent working on these problems, checking them, and getting some mini-lessons in along the way.

There are a number of important reasons that I love to start out each math class period with warm-ups.  In this post I will share with you how I use warm-ups, why I like them so much, my student work expectations, and the strong impact that I believe warm-ups have had on my state test results.  I will also explain the system I use to implement my warm-up program. [Read more…]