Friday, September 30, 2011
Warm-Ups in Math Education
The purpose of warm-ups in my classroom is to get students calmed and focused for class as well as review concepts from the class prior. My warm-ups are roughly 5-8 questions, the first few are reviewing the concepts from the past class and the last few are more difficult problems that connect to the lecture. They take about five minutes as not to waste time, but to make our time in class most efficient. Warm-ups give me time to take role and handle any other things that I need to do before class starts while keeping the students on task and getting them focused on math. The problems are all done individually and we go over them as a group to answer any questions or clarify any confusion.
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Looks like you have this as an integrated part of every class, and that your students are clearly focused during that time.
ReplyDeleteWhen writing future lesson plans, one might want to refer back to the sentence in our Group Project #1 on Warm-ups that displays a wide variety of possibilities, and try to mix in all of these as time goes on.
Since this component involves research, please add a few paragraphs that discusses a little more in depth discussion. For example what are some of the techniques you use to 'check for understanding' for 'all' students; and how do parts of your warm-ups address some of the other criteria that are also best practices?