Give math routines a makeover in your classroom and make every minute count. Captivate your elementary students with these new, innovative, and ready-to-go mathematics routines! Trusted math expert John J. SanGiovanni details 20 classroom-proven practice routines to help you ignite student engagement, reinforce learning, and prepare students for the lesson ahead. Each quick and lively activity spurs mathematics discussion and provides a structure for talking about numbers, number concepts, and number sense. Designed to jump-start mathematics reasoning in any elementary classroom, the routines.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Part I: Why Jump-Start Routines? -- The First Few Minutes of Mathematics Class -- Opportunities for Better Engagement and High-Quality Practice -- Jump-Start Routines: New Warm-ups for a New Era -- Implementing Jump-Start Routines -- Plan for the Routine -- Practical Advice for Routines -- Part II: Jump-Start Routines -- Routine 1: Math Yapper -- Routine 2: The Count -- Routine 3: The Missing -- Routine 4: Big or Small -- Routine 5: Picture It -- Routine 6: Show It 3 -- Routine 7: How Can You Make It? -- Routine 8: The Mighty Ten -- Routine 9: Make It Friendly -- Routine 10: Mystery Number -- Routine 11: Number Bio -- Routine 12: Condition -- Routine 13: Where's the Point? -- Routine 14: Is This the End? -- Routine 15: About or Between -- Routine 16: More or Less -- Routine 17: This or That? -- Routine 18: Finding One and All -- Routine 19: Another Way to Say It -- Routine 20: The Truth -- Part III: Where to Go Next -- Make a Plan -- Adjust to Their Adjustments -- Further Modify Routines -- Design Your Own Routines -- Work Collaboratively and Share the Load -- Use Jump-Start Routines for Professional Learning or PLCs -- Jump-Start Mathematics Engagement, Number Sense, and Reasoning -- Appendix -- References.