Math Journal Prompts

You can get these here! Please Note: I am offering the WORD document here. There were issues with the PDF not lining up on the labels. I have now attached (click image above) a Word document with the Century Gothic font (which most people have). If you want to change the font, you have permission to do so. DO NOT copy any portion of the document and claim as your own. I have been looking high and low for a large and really good set of math journal prompts for my kinder kiddos for the coming…

Add some critical thinking skills to your math time with this sample packet of math journal prompts. These are great for any Kindergarten and First Grade classroom.

The math thinking stem is similar to the reading stem in that it encourages students to combine critical thinking skills and writing in a specific subject area. These skills include: schema, inferences, predictions, comparisons, visualizations, questioning, and more. In math, the thinking stem force...

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Math Journals, or problem solving notebooks, are books in which students record their math work and thinking during problem solving sessions.

With Earth Day just around the corner, I thought I would join up with Leanne at Teaching Tales and share a few ideas. If you are anything like me, you have an entire crate full of old magazines and junk mail. Everyone I know collects their magazines and hands them over to me to use in my classroom. I LOVE using the pictures in magazines and ads in the junk for classroom projects and activities. Here are a few of my favorites. 1. Name Tags At the start of the year (usually the first day of…

The beauty of differentiating math instruction is that there is not one single strategy or approach to meeting the needs of your students. I've had several e-mails asking how I teach and differentiate math in my classroom- some specifically relating to how I use the Investigations series. To be completely honest with y'all, I rarely open up an Investigations teaching manual and don't use Investigations student workbooks {we had the choice to order them or not}. I know some school districts…

With these kitten- and puppy-themed journal prompts, students will count dog bones, measure yarn, add balls, graph types of pets, subtract fish and more! There are 20 pages of prompts with 10 devoted to each grade level. A few prompts cover Common Core Standards from both grades. Click here to see...

Browse over 90 educational resources created by Mrs Pollard in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Browse over 90 educational resources created by Mrs Pollard in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Browse over 90 educational resources created by Mrs Pollard in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Browse over 90 educational resources created by Mrs Pollard in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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Daily math journal prompts to encourage problem solving skills and review math objectives!

Math journals are a great way to get students really thinking about math, and what skills they are using to solve problems. Here are a few math journal prompts to get you started: I knew I was right when...... The thing you have to remember with this kind of problem is..... I solved this problem by ..... Here are some math journals for each grade: first grade math journal second grade math journal third grade math journal fourth grade math journal Here are a ton of math journal prompts.