Daily Engaging Math Review

Are you students struggling in math? Are you teaching the curriculum and is it still not enough? Students need more than a week to practice a skill!! They need constant practice and review. I think we all can agree that math is an important skill we need in everyday life, right? Why do we push it aside or say we don’t have time? MAKE TIME!!

I just moved across the country and even though I have been teaching for some time I wanted to do what the team was doing, then tweak it from there. I LOVE our math team! They do an amazing job with hands-on activities. I have always done a daily math calendar time that had most of our grade’s skills. This has been a HUGE asset to the students. Especially during the dreaded place value unit, it wasn’t so bad, because we had been talking about it all year.

Mistake #1

Welp this year I didn’t have time for a math calendar with everything that was planned. I just rolled with it and now I am seeing what a HUGE mistake that was. Are you in the same situation? End of the year and realizing that you should have made time for that review? Okay, don’t give up, it’s never too late!

I decided to combine a few days of Science and Social Studies (still the same amount of time just in a different chunk) and do my calendar review at the end of the day. If it goes a little long than I have groups pack up while we finish. I do not like doing the same thing repeatedly. I want my students to know the content in any shape or form, not just memorize how to do it on this one activity. Here is my general math review time.

Monday-Tuesday Calendar

I use THIS ActivInspire flipchart. It’s great because it is blank, and you can fill in ANY numbers you want! You can also made these into google slides or PowerPoint and imported them into Nearpod so that every student could be doing something.

Here are some more options:

Digital Calendar Math

If you are having them sit on the carpet and do a one-at-a-time approach, I have a Math Calendar job. One student stands up there and reads the problem and calls on students, another student clicks their names on ClassDojo to give participation points. This gets high engagement and leadership practice.

You can also just do a few pages a day. This would take about 5-10 minutes each day to get through the whole flipchart by the end of the week.

Wednesday- Daily Math

I do not do this daily haha, but I like a spiral review. The students have 10 minutes to finish it and if they don’t know how to do one, they skip it. I give them special blue pens to correct and when I randomly call on a student, they HAVE to tell me how they got the answer, if they can’t than I suggest a few strategies and we do it together. EVERYONE does the strategy with me to solve it. It takes about 5 minutes to correct. Here is the one I use.

Thursday- Blooket

This is by far everyone’s favorite day for math review! If you want to know more about Blooket check out my post HERE. I find whatever skill we are working on that week or find a past skill that we need to practice. You will notice the standards that they need more practice on from the calendar and Daily Math. We play this game for about 10-15 minutes and they ALWAYS are asking if we can play juuuusssttt one more!

Friday- 99 Math

This is a fluency FREE website, like Blooket but with more fluency and less game like. They do 3 rounds based on how much time you pick. Each round has a leaderboard and a common mistake that students might be making. This is great practice and its FUN; you can read more about this game HERE.

In addition to my regular math lesson, I do these activities each week. Of course, I might find a fun game on Instagram or Pinterest and I am all for switching things up or trying something new. If you have an amazing math game or review routine drop it in the comments, I’d love to try it out!