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…]
I recently gave the Percent of a Number Speed Skills Challenge module to my students. The goal of this post is to share my classroom results and my observations in order that this may benefit you, my fellow middle school math teacher. The Percent of a Number module is available as a
