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Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
Number Sense Starters:  180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations
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"I use these with my intervention students to get them into a math mindset. They love them and they are quick and easy, but challenge their understanding and grow their learning! "
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Taylor M.
"Great variety to enhance curricular focus. Easy to implement in the classroom as a part of your daily routines."
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Kelly W.

Description

These number sense starters are an awesome way to integrate numbers and operations into your classroom!  They are designed to be a quick 5 minute or less refresher of various rational number operations concepts.  Sometimes students just need a little extra practice with integer operations, fraction operations, decimal operations, and percent concepts.  This is a quick way to incorporate number sense into your classroom with minimal prep. 

While practicing number operations is valuable, it can be even more impactful when a quick discussion of strategies takes place.  We designed a discussion question for each slide to prompt student thinking. The goal is that you can facilitate a quick discussion where students are able to articulate their thinking process.  

**This resource focuses on positive rational numbers, with the exception of concepts of integers and integer operations. Please see the preview for a list of topics included.***

What is included?

1. 180 Question Prompts

There are 18 different topics which each include 10 different question prompts.  Each slide is labeled by the topic so that you can easily pick and choose.  

Prompts are available in four different formats: Google Slides (standard and widescreen) and PPT (standard and widescreen)

2. Answer Keys

A printable answer key for you to easily reference

3. Discussion Questions

We have provided one discussion question per slide to help facilitate a conversation on strategies in which students share their thinking. 

4. Recording Sheet

We have designed these to be paperless so that you aren’t trying to make copies or utilize paper for each student.  A recording sheet is included, but I would recommend having students work in composition books.

5. Checklist

Feel free to move around the slide deck depending on what your students need.  We have included a printable checklist for you to keep track of which ones your class has completed.

**Please download the preview to see more. This resource is NOT editable. A template has been included for your customization.**

Interested in using these resources with your team or district?

I have many schools that use Maneuvering the Middle resources as their curriculum or to supplement the textbook. If you are interested in a personalized quote to share with your administrator, please click here.

Customer Service

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me or use the Ask a Question feature in TpT. I want to provide quality products to help teachers and students alike, so contact me before leaving feedback if you have a need.

Maneuvering the Middle Resources

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Maneuvering the Middle Terms of Use

Products by Maneuvering the Middle, LLC may be used by the purchaser for their classroom use only. This is a single classroom license only. All rights reserved. Resources may only be posted online if they are behind a password protected site.

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Number Sense Starters: 180 Math Prompts for Numbers and Operations

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What others say

"I use these with my intervention students to get them into a math mindset. They love them and they are quick and easy, but challenge their understanding and grow their learning! "
star
Taylor M.
"Great variety to enhance curricular focus. Easy to implement in the classroom as a part of your daily routines."
star
Kelly W.

Description

These number sense starters are an awesome way to integrate numbers and operations into your classroom!  They are designed to be a quick 5 minute or less refresher of various rational number operations concepts.  Sometimes students just need a little extra practice with integer operations, fraction operations, decimal operations, and percent concepts.  This is a quick way to incorporate number sense into your classroom with minimal prep. 

While practicing number operations is valuable, it can be even more impactful when a quick discussion of strategies takes place.  We designed a discussion question for each slide to prompt student thinking. The goal is that you can facilitate a quick discussion where students are able to articulate their thinking process.  

**This resource focuses on positive rational numbers, with the exception of concepts of integers and integer operations. Please see the preview for a list of topics included.***

What is included?

1. 180 Question Prompts

There are 18 different topics which each include 10 different question prompts.  Each slide is labeled by the topic so that you can easily pick and choose.  

Prompts are available in four different formats: Google Slides (standard and widescreen) and PPT (standard and widescreen)

2. Answer Keys

A printable answer key for you to easily reference

3. Discussion Questions

We have provided one discussion question per slide to help facilitate a conversation on strategies in which students share their thinking. 

4. Recording Sheet

We have designed these to be paperless so that you aren’t trying to make copies or utilize paper for each student.  A recording sheet is included, but I would recommend having students work in composition books.

5. Checklist

Feel free to move around the slide deck depending on what your students need.  We have included a printable checklist for you to keep track of which ones your class has completed.

**Please download the preview to see more. This resource is NOT editable. A template has been included for your customization.**

Interested in using these resources with your team or district?

I have many schools that use Maneuvering the Middle resources as their curriculum or to supplement the textbook. If you are interested in a personalized quote to share with your administrator, please click here.

Customer Service

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me or use the Ask a Question feature in TpT. I want to provide quality products to help teachers and students alike, so contact me before leaving feedback if you have a need.

Maneuvering the Middle Resources

Maneuvering the Middle on the Web for teacher tips, tricks, and math content!

Maneuvering the Middle Terms of Use

Products by Maneuvering the Middle, LLC may be used by the purchaser for their classroom use only. This is a single classroom license only. All rights reserved. Resources may only be posted online if they are behind a password protected site.

©Maneuvering the Middle LLC, 2012-present

Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

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I use these with my intervention students to get them into a math mindset. They love them and they are quick and easy, but challenge their understanding and grow their learning!
Taylor M.
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Grades taught: 6th
Student populations: Autism, Emerging bilinguals, Learning difficulties
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Great variety to enhance curricular focus. Easy to implement in the classroom as a part of your daily routines.
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This is a great resource. Students were engaged. Easy to follow.
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I use these almost daily in my high school prealgebra class. It is great for building number sense with these students.
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60 reviews • Iowa
Grades taught: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
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Great resource, used as a class starter! Students are engaged and enjoy it.
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Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. For example, create a story context for (2/3) ÷ (3/4) and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (𝘢/𝘣) ÷ (𝘤/𝘥) = 𝘢𝘥/𝘣𝘤.) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?
Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.
Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
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