Quick routines and warm-ups are efficient ways of practicing reasoning, uncovering prior knowledge, and engaging students to participate with open-ended questions and many possible answers. It is the perfect place to begin trying out some different online modalities.
-Theresa Wills (2021) Teaching Math at a Distance
Which One Doesn’t Belong
Every student has a place to put their thinking. There are 3 templates that allow for anonymous polling, student rationales and accountability.
Resources: https://wodb.ca/
Number Talks
Students to color code their name as they think of multiple strategies. Once students share possible solutions and strategies, the teacher facilitates a discussion about which strategies and solutions are correct.
Resources: http://www.meaningfulmathmoments.com/number-talks.html
Notice & Wonder Routine
Students use the chat box to type their initial notices and wonders. Teachers can then purposefully select student responses and copy/paste them into the slide template. As the whole group discussion unfolds, students who prefer typing over mic can still have their voice heard.
Resources: https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Problems-of-the-Week/I-Notice-I-Wonder/
Choral Counting
Students recite number patterns, then analyze the numbers to identify mathematical patterns within the chart.
Resources: https://tedd.org/choral-counting/
Open Middle
Get more participation when EVERY student is manipulating the tiles. Then they star it when they find a solution. Generalizations and communication are at the heart of this routine.
Resources: https://www.openmiddle.com/.
Numberless Word Problems
This template allows students to have voice at multiple occurrences - when they are thinking of questions to ask, and when they have a solution. When every student has their space for their voice, the discussion is rich and participation is effortless.
Resources: #numberlesswp
Contemplate then Calculate Routine
Every student participates through chat box, microphone, and emojis to show their visualization of chunking.
Resources: fosteringmathpractices.com/contemplate-then-calculate
Would You Rather
Students select a situation and give a rationale for WHY they chose that situation. Responses can be mathematically or experience based.
Resources: https://www.wouldyourathermath.com/
What comes next?
Every student participates through google slides. Students must listen and interpret one another by color coding. Finally, all students get a space to show what comes next.
Always, Sometimes, Never
Students create multiple correct answers for various situations involving solutions that always happen, sometimes happen, and never happen.
Resources: http://asnmath.blogspot.com/
Estimate & Order Routine
Every student shares their estimate and then the class orders them on a number line. It is a great routine for discussing averages and measures of center because students understand why mean, median, and mode are different. It will also bring out discussions on outliers.
Number Wave Routine
This template allows students to create a number and place it on the number line. The number line is in the shape of a wave as a visual to discuss rounding.
Before and After Patterns
This template allows students to have voice at multiple occurrences - first in designing the before and after pattern, and then commenting on peers’ patterns.
Clothesline Math
This routine is designed to give students choice in number selection and voice in placement. When using anonymously, whole group conversations can focus on number placement rather than wrong answers.
Resources: https://clotheslinemath.com/
Unit Chat
With many correct possible answers, students identify what they see in the image, and the units that they used to see it.
Resources: https://mathforlove.com/lesson/unit-chats/
Same but Different
This routine gets kids to look at two different images and determine what is the same and what is different about each.
Resources: https://www.samebutdifferentmath.com/
Slow Reveal Graphs
This routine gets students thinking about values on the axis, labels, titles, and the shape of the graph before any numerical information is given.
Resources: https://slowrevealgraphs.com/
Convince Me That…
This routine gets kids use creative problem solving techniques to make a convincing argument.
Resources: ConvinceMeThat.SCMath.org
Estimation Routine
Get students thinking about estimates that are too low and too high and explaining strategies before making a true estimate.
Resources: https://estimation180.com/
Visual Patterns
Get students to use words to explain the patterns that are found in images.
Resources: http://www.visualpatterns.org/
What Could This Be?
Get students thinking flexibly about representations by creating a class list of as many DIFFERENT interpretations of the model.
Between 2 Numbers
Students use relative measurement and proportional reasoning to determine the relationship between 2 things.
Resources: https://www.between2numbers.com/
My Favorite Mistake
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Resources: http://mathmistakes.org/
https://learn.teachingchannel.com/video/class-warm-up-routine
Connecting Representations
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Find & Photo
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Esti-Mysteries
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Resources: https://stevewyborney.com/2018/11/esti-mysteries-estimation-meets-math-mysteries/
Reasoning up & down
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