Day-by-Day Math Thinking Routines in First Grade

40 Weeks of Quick Prompts and Activities

Nicki Newton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000754049
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Mathematics

Day-by-Day Math Thinking Routines in First Grade helps you provide students with a review of the foundational ideas in math, every day of the week! Based on the bestselling Daily Math Thinking Routines in Action, the book follows the simple premise that frequent, rigorous, engaging practice leads to mastery and retention of concepts, ideas, and skills. These worksheet-free, academically rigorous routines and prompts follow the grade level priority standards and include whole group, individual, and partner work. The book can be used with any math program, or for small groups, workstations, or homework.

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• 40 weeks of practice

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• 1 activity a day

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• 200 activities total

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• Answer Key

For each week, the Anchor Routines cover these key areas: Monday: General Thinking Routines; Tuesday: Vocabulary; Wednesday: Place Value; Thursday: Fluency; and Friday: Problem Solving. Get your students' math muscles moving with the easy-to-follow routines in this book!

Daily Routines

Week 1 Teacher Notes

Monday: What Doesn’t Belong?

When introducing this routine, the teacher should work with the students to solve each box and then decide which one doesn’t belong.

Tuesday: Alike and Different

Students should be able to discuss how the shapes are alike with sides that are closed, how they have points (vertices) and how the sides are straight. We want to focus on the attributes of the shapes.

Wednesday: Number Bond It!

This is an opportunity for students to build on their work on composing and decomposing numbers to 10.

Thursday: Number Talk

This is an opportunity for students to work on adding 1 to a number. They should talk about how you just have to think of the next number.

Friday: What’s the Story?

You want students to act this out and then discuss the pictures.

Week 1 Activities

Monday: What Doesn’t Belong?

Look at the options in each box. Figure out which one doesn’t belong. Decide and discuss.

Tuesday: Alike and Different

Look at the shapes and decide and discuss how they are alike and how they are different.

Wednesday: Number Bond It!

Fill in the missing numbers.

Thursday: Number Talk

What are some ways to think about:

2 + 1

3 + 1

4 + 1

7 + 1

What happens when you add 1 to a number?

Friday: What’s the Story?

Tell a story about these pictures.

Week 2 Teacher Notes

Monday: True or False?

In this routine the students discuss whether or not statements are true or false. Here they are working with the number 0. It is important for students to be able to explain what is happening when they are working with 0.

Tuesday: It Is/It Isn’t

In this routine students are describing the number 16. They have to discuss what it is and what it isn’t. For example, it is a 2 digit number. It is greater than 15. It isn’t a 1 digit number. It isn’t greater than 20.

Wednesday: Number Line It!

Students have to discuss how to order and plot the numbers on the number line from least to greatest.

Thursday: Number Talk

Students work on adding numbers within 10. They have to discuss whether or not they did it in their head, with a drawing or on paper.

Friday: Model It

Students act out the word problems and then discuss the pictorial representation.

Week 2 Activities

Monday: True or False?

Look at the boxes. Decide and discuss whether the equation is true or false.

A. 2 + 0 = 0

B. 3 + 0 = 3

C. 4 − 0 = 0

D. 2 − 0 = 2

Tuesday: It Is/It Isn’t

Describe what the number is and what it isn’t.

Word bank: Greater Than, Less Than,...