<strong><em>Kickstart your middle school math class!</em></strong></p> </p> Kickstart your class with 20 different routines, all of which include content examples, extensions, and variations for grades 6-8. Offering a year's worth of daily instructional material that you can use each class period to promote student reasoning and number sense, this resource will help students</p> </p> <ul> Frequently revisit essential mathematical concepts </li> Foster and shore up conceptual understanding</li> Engage in mental mathematics, leading to efficiency and fluency</li> Engage in mathematical discourse by constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others</li> Reason mathematically, which can improve performance on high-stakes assessments</li> Move learning beyond "correctness" by valuing mistakes and discourse to encourage a growth mindset</li> </ul>