Mathological Minds

I love starting the year with students completing a Mathography as it helps to get to know them better. I used to included allergies as well as preferred pronouns on here, but I will let you decide if you want or need to add those options. I keep these and refer to them throughout the year, especially the favorites section when I feel like a kid needs a boost.

One of the best activities if you set it up correctly. Students are creating their own mystery number problems, and the rest of the class will solve them. I call it a scavenger hunt with my students, but I call almost everything in which they are getting out of their seats a scavenger hunt. Leave yourself time to check the mystery number problems that the students create. The activity is only as good as the clarity of their problems. I also highly suggest running through a couple of problems of

This is a great activity that I've used both as a warm-up as well as a class activity that promotes discussion regarding strategies for finding the percent of a number. The problems selected are connected, so it is designed to encourage follow-up questions about how they used certain problems to solve others. It can be an individual activity or students can work in pairs. I like for them to have 2 minutes for the first round, and then answer the others in another color pen for about 5 more minut