Math Starters! 5-10 Minute Activities That
Make Kids Think
by Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla
Here is a super collection
of over 650 ready-to-use math starters that get kids quickly
focused and working on math. Perfect for any math curriculum,
these high-interest problems spark involvement in the day's
lesson, help students build skills, and allow you to handle
daily management tasks without wasting valuable instructional
time.
For easy use, all of the math-starter problems are printed
in a big 8-1/4" x 11" lay-flat format for photocopying
and organized into two parts: Part I, "Making Math Starters
a Part of Your Program" gives you practical suggesions
for implementing math starters in your teaching routine, and
Part II, "Math Starters" provides six collections
of math-starter problems related to six major areas of secondary
math, including: Whole Numbers: Theory & Operations; Fractions,
Decimals & Percents; Measurement; Geometry; Algebra; and
Potpourri.