Lesson Openers

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.