Mental Maths Warmups are a wonderful way to start every maths session. They are short, efficient, language-based, targeted, relevant activities that up to the whole class can be engaged in at one time. You can spend about 10 minutes every day warming up your students strategic thinking, problem-solving and fact recall.
The funny thing about them is that there are 3 distinct types of Mental Maths Warmups:
1: PAST
These summarise, recall and practise maths concepts you have tackled with your students in a previous year, term or week.
2: PRESENT
These target maths concepts that your class is studying today or this week or in this unit.
3: FUTURE
These investigate maths concepts your class may not have been introduced to yet, They are great as a quick pre-assessment check.
Although sample Mental Warmups are scattered throughout our Maths Resources, you can find a large collection of them sorted into specific grade groups in The Maths Session.