The first week of school is both exhilarating and exhausting. Let these lesson plans enhance your first week by encouraging math engagement right away. Included are four math-based challenges that are designed to gradually lead your students towards demonstrating the best math practices, including: Order of Operations, Integer Operations, Volume, Surface Area, Solving Two-Step Equations, Pythagorean Theorem, Exponents, and Measures of Central Tendency. Notes for the teacher, suggestions for scaf