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Try This: End Your Small Group with "How Do You Know?"
You ran your Launch, your Problem Solver, or your game with your small group. Now, how do you close it?
Try This: See Student Strategies in Small Groups With One Task
Try this one thing this week: pull a targeted small group and hand them a rich Task instead of a worksheet. Tasks offer one problem with multiple ways in.
Try This: Go Deeper in Small Group with a Math Game
Once your small group has a clear focus, games are one of the fastest ways to get more reps of a skill without it feeling like a worksheet. The right game keeps kids reasoning, not just answering, because they have to think about the relationship between numbers, not just recall a fac …
Try This: Start Small with a Targeted Launch for 3-5 Students
Pulling a small group can feel like a big commitment when your plate's already full. Here's the good news: your first one doesn't need to be fancy. It just needs to be targeted.
Try This: Diagnose Why Math Discourse Went Flat (and Fix It)
Here's something that happens to almost every teacher a few weeks into the year: a discourse routine that felt electric in week one goes flat by week four. The same two or three voices, one-word answers, or silence during turn-and-talk that stretches a beat too long.
Try This: Differentiate Your Windowpanes with Ease
Windowpanes already have built-in choice: 8 boxes, and students pick their path. Here are three ways to lean into that, depending on how much you want to take on right now. Need a quick refresher on Windowpanes? Check out this guide on introducing them to your Math Menu.
Try This: Make Your First Journal Prompt Feel Like a Launch
Try this one thing this week: introduce journal prompts to your students by making the very first one feel exactly like a launch they already know and trust.
Try This: Let Students Choose Their Own Problem Solver Star Level
Try this one thing this week: introduce Problem Solver #01 and let students choose their own star level (one, two, or three stars) instead of assigning it to them.
Try This: Introduce Windowpanes With Guided Modeling First
Try this one thing this week: introduce Windowpanes as a new addition to your Math Menu, walking students through it yourself the first time so they learn the routine before working independently.
Try This: Start Math Menu with Games They'll Want to Play
If you're kicking off Math Menu for the first time this year, don't start with everything at once. Start with games. It's one of the lowest-lift entry points: a quick one-time print-and-cut for the deck, then no more prep needed all year. Your students already love game time, and once …
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