Openers
Some ideas to kick off your lesson and build communication and math skills.
Which One Doesn’t Belong http://wodb.ca Builds skills in justifying and explaining.
A different type of number talk. Wander this sight as it has a huge number of resources. https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/multiplication-number-strings
Estimation 180 – An excellent site to hone student estimation skills http://www.estimation180.com
Same Different – the link is to an article of how to use this strategy but it also links to the site of pictures. Very similar to Which One Doesn’t Belong. https://www.samebutdifferentmath.com/how-to-use
Clothesline Math – this works very well with Estimation 180 and promotes number line knowledge. https://clotheslinemath.com
Number Talks – check out the Teaching Channel as well as these books.
This book is my favourite because it is full of excellent advice including how to choose numbers to use for a number talk.