Open-Ended Maths Warm Up Slides
What if instead of groans and grumbles at the start of every maths lesson, you had a way to build genuine excitement and engagement?
Starting with the interactive spinning wheel to select your daily warm up, you'll get instant buy in from students.
Each warm up is then designed to be low floor, high ceiling, meaning they're accessible to all learners (low floor) while offering significant, complex challenges for advanced students (high ceiling). This allows you to engage and challenge ALL the students in your class.
With fully editable slides you can add, delete and change the questions to suit your class and the topics you're focusing on.
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Why Choose The Open-Ended Maths Warm Up Slides?
- All slides are fully editable, allowing you to add, delete and change the questions to suit your class and the topics you're focusing on
- All activities are open-ended, providing opportunities for creative thinking, deep exploration of mathematical ideas and rich discussions
- All activities are low floor, high ceiling, meaning they're accessible to all learners (low floor) while offering significant, complex challenges for advanced students (high ceiling)
- All activities come with answers and teaching notes, so you can guide discussions with confidence
- All activities come with options for easier and harder versions, making them highly adaptable to the needs of your students
What's Included?
- 30 open-ended maths warm ups covering key number concepts (additive relations, multiplicative relations, financial maths, fractions and decimals)
- An interactive spinner a novel way to select your maths warm up for the day that gets instant buy in and excitement from your students!
- Fully editable slides with teacher notes, answers and differentiated options for each activity
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Maths Warm-Up: The Hot Seat
The Hot Seat is one of my favourite quick maths classroom games. One student sits in the “hot seat” and asks questions to figure out a hidden number or answer, while the class responds only with yes, no, or maybe, which gives clues to help solve the problem under time pressure. It’s simple, engaging, and builds reasoning fast.
Maths Warm-Up: Maths In a Line
Maths In a Line is one of those activities that instantly lifts the energy in my classroom. Students line up, solve a maths question, and if they’re correct they move forward in the relay while trying to stay “in the line” for as long as they can. It’s fast, fun, and a great way to build mental maths skills without them even realising it.
Maths Warm-Up: Number Duel
Number Duel is one of those quick, no-prep maths games I like to use when I want my class focused and thinking fast. Students go head-to-head as they name numbers that fit a given rule or category, racing to stay in the game. It’s simple to run, brings a bit of friendly competition into the room, and is a great way to build number sense and pattern recognition.