Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Middle School: 9Engage Students, Improve Number Sense, and Practice Reasoning

Kickstart your middle school math class!

Kickstart your class with 20 different routines, all of which include content examples, extensions, and variations for grades 6–8. Offering a year’s worth of daily instructional material that you can use each class period to promote student reasoning and number sense, this resource will help students

• Frequently revisit essential mathematical concepts
• Foster and shore up conceptual understanding
• Engage in mental mathematics, leading to efficiency and fluency
• Engage in mathematical discourse by constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others
• Reason mathematically, which can improve performance on high-stakes assessments
• Move learning beyond “correctness” by valuing mistakes and discourse to encourage a growth mindset