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Here is a super collection of over 650 ready-to-use math starters that get kids quickly focused and working on math as soon as they enter your classroom! Perfect for any math curriculum, these high-interest problems spark involvement in the day's lesson, help students build skills, and allow you to handle daily management tasks without wasting valuable instructional time.For easy use, all of the math-starter problems are printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" lay-flat format for photocopying and organized into two parts: Part I, "Making Math Starters a Part of Your Program" gives you practical suggesions for implementing math starters in your teaching routine, and Part II, "Math Starters" provides six collections of math-starter problems related to six major areas of secondary math, including: Whole Numbers: Theory & Operations; Fractions, Decimals & Percents; Measurement; Geometry; Algebra; and Potpourri.


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Here is a super collection of over 650 ready-to-use math starters that get kids quickly focused and working on math as soon as they enter your classroom! Perfect for any math curriculum, these high-interest problems spark involvement in the day's lesson, help students build skills, and allow you to handle daily management tasks without wasting valuable instructional time.

For easy use all of the math-starter problems are printed in a big 8 ¼" x 11" lay-flat format for photocopying and organized in two parts:

Part I, "Making Math Starters a Part of Your Program" gives you practical suggestions for implementing math starters in your teaching routine, including tips on evaluation, class management, setting up cooperative groups, and more.

Part II, "MATH Starters" provides six collections of math-starter problems related to six major areas of secondary math. Following is a brief overview of what you'll find for each math areas:

  • WHOLE NUMBERS: THEORY & OPERATIONS 86 problems like "Perfect Squares," "Emirps," "Divisibility by 11," and "Symbols" covering types of numbers, basic operations, rules for divisibility, multiple, greatest common factors and other topics
  • FRACTIONS, DECIMALS & PERCENTS 122 starters such as "Comparing Fractions & Decimals," "Equivalencies" and "Finding a Number When the Percent of It Is Unknown"
  • MEASUREMENT 70roblems using English and metric measurements, time temperature and other measures, including "Obsolete Units" (cubics & spans), "The 24-Hour Clock," "Cords of Wood," "Parsecs and Light Years," and "Computer Memory"
  • GEOMETRY 130 starters such as "Types of Angles," "Convex Polygrams," "Generating Pythagorean Triples," and "Identifying Trapezoids and Parallelograms"
  • ALGEBRA 128 problems, prealgebra and up, such as "The Number Line," "Adding and Subtracting Integers," "Finding the Slope," and "Finding the GCF of Monomials"
  • POTPOURRI 112 math starters on data analysis, probability, fractals, codes, vectors and more, such as "Number Ciphers," "Finding Simple Probability" and "Magic Squares"

Complete answer keys for all math starters are provided in the "Answer Keys" at the end.

Moreover to help you easily select problems to meet the diverse needs of your students, the difficulty level of each starter is denoted by one, two, or three stars for individual or group work. And as a further help, the skills in each of the books's six sections of math starters follow a sequence common to most math curriculum.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass (October 28, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0876285663
  • ISBN-13: 978-0876285664
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great investment for any math teacher!, May 5, 2003
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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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Skills, not so basic activities, June 1, 2007
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Curriculum Supplement, September 25, 2005
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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.
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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.
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