Kickstart your middle school math class!

Kickstart your class with 20 different routines, all of which include content examples, extensions, and variations for grades 6–8. Offering a year’s worth of daily instructional material that you can use each class period to promote student reasoning and number sense, this resource will help students

• Frequently revisit essential mathematical concepts
• Foster and shore up conceptual understanding
• Engage in mental mathematics, leading to efficiency and fluency
• Engage in mathematical discourse by constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others
• Reason mathematically, which can improve performance on high-stakes assessments
• Move learning beyond “correctness” by valuing mistakes and discourse to encourage a growth mindset