First Day of Math Class Activities for Routines, Procedures, and Mindset

This PowerPoint presentation, along with the student activities, will guide you and your students in setting up a positive learning environment for a successful year on the first day of math class! This includes everything you need to set up an attention cue, classroom norms, procedures, routines, and a positive math mindset. This activity will also get your students talking about math on the first day of school!

This resource will make your life easier, as it provides a fun, engaging way to start setting your classroom norms! The home slide of this presentation is a riddle, where each letter to the answer of the riddle is linked to a classroom procedure activity, get to know you activity, mindset activity, or math activity.

Includes activities to:

➡️Get to know the teacher.

➡️Get to know the students in your group.

➡️Get to know the whole class.

➡️Discuss why math is important for our world.

➡️Get to know the classroom.

➡️Discuss mindset and why making mistakes is important.

➡️Talk about math!!

If you are interested in improving engagement in your classroom this year, check out these problem based discovery learning tasks:

• 7th grade low floor high ceiling PBL math tasks bundle.
• Simplify expressions and use the distributive property.
• Derive the formula for the area of a circle.
• Define complementary, supplementary, and vertical angles.

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