Numeracy - Instructional Routines

The Instructional Routines below have been grouped by type. Whether you are looking for a quick, focused activity to get your students' thinking mathematically or an open-ended, expansive, rich task that consolidates multiple skills, you can find it here. The related grade bands are suggestions; you know your students best.

Suggested Grade Band	Warm Up Routines (Minds On Math)	Fluency Routines (Mental Math)	Thinking Routines (Lessons)	Assessment Routines (Formative)
Primary (K,1,2)	Calendar Templates Calendar Activities (patterning, sequencing) Shape of the Day (first, then, duration) Birthday & Weather Graph Transition Routines (Sorting, Tidying, Sharing)	Choral Counting, Movement with Music Shake and Make 10-Frames (Mary Deagle) Steve Wyborney's Esti-Mysteries Penny Drop Math Number Sense Booklets	Problem Strings Routine (Pam Harris) Example for K-2 Ms. Carly's Ridiculously Expensive Snack Shop Thinking Classrooms Routine Example (Primary): Going Canoeing Task	Small Group Assessment (Centres) SD72 Common Formative Assessment (Sept-October) Number of The Day (SNAP) Math Conferences (Teacher-Led) "I Can" Statements
Intermediate (3,4,5)	Howie Hua Math Minutes Videos Grouping and Regrouping Subtracting Left to Right 2 Ways to Think about Subtraction Division Strategy Other Ways to Subtract Subtract Without Needing to Borrow Multiplying using Rectangles Steve Wyborney Splats! (Example)	Steve Wyborney's Esti-Mysteries Steve Wyborney’s Maze Hundred Chart Penny Drop Math Booklets MashUp Math Puzzles	Problem Strings Routine (Pam Harris) Example for Grades 3-5 Building Thinking Classrooms Routine Example (Intermediate): Building a Garden Task	SD72 Common Formative Assessment (Sept-October) SNAP Templates Folder SNAP Guidelines (1-page summary) Math Conferences (Teacher-Led)
Middle Years (6, 7, 8)	Howie Hua Math Minutes Videos Dividing with a Rectangle Egyptian Multiplication A Common Error When Dividing Divisibility Rule of 11 Solving Proportions Deriving 6 Area Formulas from the Area of a Rectangle Shikaku (ARRAY) Puzzles Sankaku (AREA) Puzzles Examples Zukei (SHAPE) Puzzles (Naoki Inaba)	Would You Rather Routine wouldyourathermath.com (examples) Number Talks Youcubed_Math_Talks _Lesson_Openers Yohaku (NUMBER) Puzzles Examples I Have, You Need Routine (Pam Harris)	Ratio Tables (Pam Harris) Problem Strings Routine (Pam Harris) Example for Grades 6-8 Building Thinking Classrooms Routine	SD72 Common Formative Assessment (Sept-October) SNAP Templates Folder SNAP Guidelines (1-page summary) Myself in Math (Self-Assessment)
Grade 9+	Howie Hua Math Minutes Videos Subtracting Negatives without Tricks Greatest Common Factor Find GCF & LCM Convert a Repeating Decimal into a Fraction Making Sense of Fraction Addition All Prime #s are 1 Away from a Multiple of 6 Square Root Completing the Square	My Favourite No Routine Number Talks Questions & Provocations	Problem Strings Routine Example for Grade 9-12 Building Thinking Classrooms Routine	SD72 Common Formative Assessment SNAP Templates Folder SNAP Guidelines (1-page summary) Myself in Math (Self-Assessment)
Print Resources Available from the Ed Centre (Call Number)	Good Questions and More Good Questions from Carole Fullerton TTMAKT-0244 & 0246 (Gr. 2-4) TTMAKT-0245 & 0247 (Gr. 5-8)	Choral Counting & Counting Collections (TTMAKT-0234) Number Sense Routines for Grades 3-5 by Jessica Shumway (TTMAKT-0229) Number Talks Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages (TTMAKT-0209)	Messy Maths in Early Years by Juliet Robertson (TTMAKT-0240) Beyond Pizzas and Pies in Grades 3-5 (TTMAKT-0194)
French Immersion	Word Wall Work French Immersion Math Glossary - Elementary French Immersion Math Glossary - Grade 9	Nombre du jour (gabarit) K-2 cahiers: le sens du nombre (K-5)	jeu des attributs	Questions pour la réflexion en maths