Tasks & Talks

Combine these 2 low-floor, high-ceiling activities to spark flexible thinking and an understanding of number sense. Start your math class with a warmup activity from the image talk, followed by story mats and open questions to have your students engaged in contextualized activities that foster a sense of ownership of the learning. Students at any level of understanding can engage with the math in these activities and before you know it, they will start to see math everywhere in their daily liv

This product includes 24 open question task cards and a variety of story mats and counting pictures. Open questions using story mats provides an opportunity for low-floor high-ceiling activities. These questions and mats were developed to provide an entry point for most students while fostering problem solving skills. The bundle includes 16 task cards. Open questions have multiple solution paths. Prompt your students to provide a variety of correct responses and talk about their solutions by ask