Episode description

We chat with John SanGIovanni - a Math Supervisor from Baltimore and Author of the book series Daily Routines To Jump-Start Math Class. In this episode John shares why your traditional warm up / bell ringer activities need to change, how to build number sense at any grade level and save time doing it, why traditional homework take-up doesn’t work, how to avoid creating math sheep! And you’ll walk away with 5 Specific Routine Activities to jump start your day.

You’ll Learn: 

• Why your traditional warm up / bell ringer activities need to change.
• How to build number sense at any grade level and save time doing it!
• Why traditional homework take-up doesn’t work. 
• How to avoid creating math sheep!
• 5 Specific Routine Activities to jump start your day.

Show Notes: https://makemathmoments.com/episode31 

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