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Math Starters!: 5- To 10-Minute Activities That Make Kids Think, Grades 6-12

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I use activities from this book almost every day. It can be used to reinforce current concepts or to review prior lessons. It covers a wide variety of topics and offers problems that are appropriate for a broad range of abilities (I teach 8th-grade math). It is a great way to engage students from the minute they walk in the door. The problems are great for challenging ALL of your students!

I really love most of the worksheet pages in this book. This is a book full of reproducible pages. The pages are great reinforcement pages to a middle/high school curriculum, but the worksheets are not dull and boring. They use higher level thinking skills and offer a little bit of interest by including secret messages and game-type worksheets, too. Highly recommend. Great homework pages. Easy to match up the skills with your curriculum since each page focuses on a single topic.

II find these math starters very helpful. I have been using them since the beginning of school and they have been a wonderful tool to help my students get back into the routine of school work.

Works as a supplement to make students think in different ways. A must for students accustomed to rote problems such as those contained in the Saxon Series.

These are great except that many of them require a huge amount of background knowledge of numeracy that my adults don't have yet. I end up spending an entire math lesson on just one of the warm ups to fill in what's missing instead of just using them as a quick 5 minute warm-up.

They would be good for a higher level class, but not so great for an intermediate adult basic ed.