ABSTRACT
Daily Math Thinking Routines are done to help guide students’ thinking and learning and their “intellectual interactions”. There are a variety of thinking routines but they each have very clear goals. Some of them–such as daily number flexes like Number of the Day, Fraction of the Day, or Decimal of the Day–are meant to develop fluency with operations and deep conceptual understanding of the concept. Other routines–such as True or False–are meant to engage students in reasoning about mathematical statements and to get them looking at the structure and pattern of numbers. Teachers have to know what their students need, believe they can learn it, and then purposefully choose the routines that will help to scaffold their understanding, skill, and reasoning. Routines are explicit, named, and streamlined, and they have a familiar framework. "Routines also play an important role in shaping and directing the intellectual space of the classroom.
