A Mathematics Lesson Starter Of The Day

Tasty Take-Aways

In the back of your exercise books write down the answers to the calculations below. Do not use a calculator. When you have finished add all of your answers together

Starter of The Day Transum Mathematics Topics


Topics: Starter | Arithmetic

  • Julie Reakes, The English College, Dubai
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  • I love this kind of starter as it ensures complete accuracy.
  • Jules Higham, IMS
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  • This is great for my students for beginnings of the lessons and to get their brains in gear!
  • Chris Smith, Bushenyi Primary Teachers' College, Uganda
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  • This was rather "so what" for my teacher trainee students, but... we saw a good way to encourage both speed and accuracy, only one answer to mark, so designed a similar starter, eight questions, various operations, and the final sum was 12,345. It could have been the date or 22222 or... Tried it with a Primary 5 class this afternoon and it worked very well. Certainly I will recommend this for school practice next term. It is very flexible, any question giving a numerical answer. (Commas in large numbers are accepted here, currency has lots of zeros.).

    [Transum: Thanks for the ideas Chris. Your comment about the total being today's date inspired me to create the Extension which you will find lower down this page.]

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Laptops In Lessons

Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do they have iPads or Laptops in Lessons?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC, a Surface or a Mac, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Laptops In Lessons

Here a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments.

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Here is the URL which will take them to the complete set of exercises on basic subtraction.

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Extension Take-Aways

In the back of your exercise books write down the answers to the calculations below. Do not use a calculator. When you have finished add all of your answers together. What do you notice about the answer?

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