Teaching New Math

Encourage creative thinking and foster students' number sense by spending just a few minutes at the beginning of class - or during math centers - to create equations of the day. Use the date, the day of the month, or the number of days you've been in school and ask students to create equations with this number as the answer. This routine is accessible to every student with a low floor and high ceiling. Students can use basic addition or subtraction facts, create multiplication or division equati

Encourage creative thinking and problem solving skills with this easy to implement math routine, which asks students to find a way to input an expression into a calculator with a broken key. This activity could be used at the beginning of class as a warm-up, morning work as students arrive, to initiate math discourse, or as a math center. This routine is accessible to every student with a low floor and high ceiling. This simple routine can help students look at numbers and equations creatively a

Encourage flexible thinking with this easy to implement math routine, which asks students to find various combinations of coins to reach given totals. This activity could be used at the beginning of class as a warm-up, morning work, or as a math center. This routine is accessible to every student with a low floor and high ceiling, as there are many possibilities for “correct” answers, encouraging students to share their solutions and ideas with each other. This simple routine can help students l