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

By Gary Robert Muschla and Judith A. Muschla

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 suggestions 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876285663
• ISBN13: 9780876285664
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Basic Skills, not so basic activities

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.

Great Curriculum Supplement

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.

Spicing Up the Topic

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.

A great investment for any math teacher!

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!