Math journal prompts

Tired of the same old math problems? Use these math writing prompts to write about your math adventures & unlock your students' math potential!

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Discover how math writing prompts boost students' understanding of math and increase their ability to communicate math ideas.

Are you looking for a way to spice up your math lessons? Math journals can do just that! Math journaling has become quite popular. I am always looking for ways to improve my math teaching. I wanted to incorporate math journals into my teaching last year, but just never got around to it. This year will be much different! I have created 180 common core based math journal prompts- One for each day of the school year! I plan to use math journals at least three days a week if not more. I also use…

Today I updated my May Math Journal Prompts and re-uploaded them to tpt. I have added 5 more prompts that review some of the skills taught earlier in the year of Kindergarten. That way, when you are assessing your students at the end of the year-- their math journal might be a way of reminding or refreshing their memories from earlier in the year. Some of the skills include subtraction... Critical Thinking Skills, Addition... Sorting, Greater than... And many others!!! Don't forget if you…

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Free printable math inspired journal writing prompts for kids.

Two years ago, I added math journaling to my math routine. I am not going to lie- it was PAINFUL! My students would often just write one word answers. And the ones who wrote a paragraph made NO sense. Reading them was my least favorite teacher task and always made me feel like my students just weren't getting it. And it dawned on me- I had been teaching math, but had failed to teach them how to explain their thinking! Fast forward two years and lots of tears later- I think I have finally…