Warm-Ups: Purpose and Description
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What are Warm-ups?
Warm-ups are a daily means of formatively assessing student learning in specific topics relevant to the current
curriculum. The six questions are designed in the following format:
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Questions 1 and 2 comprise topics that the students have been taught previously but which need “not to be
left behind”.
2. Questions 3 and 4 comprise topics being learned “right now”.
3. Questions 5 and 6 comprise topics from student background knowledge that are “being warmed up” in order
to support new learning in the near future.
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How long should a teacher spend on them?
The warm-ups should take around 5 minutes for the set of 6. Teachers should consider choosing one problem per
set to discuss fully with the class. The expectation is that all students should be able to get about 4 of the 6
questions correct on each warm-up.
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What is the purpose of a warm-up?
The purpose of these particular warm-ups is that they are designed to scaffold student learning and to review
material from the Core that should never be left behind.
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1. Simplify: 4𝑎2 ∙ 2𝑎3
2. Solve for r: −6𝑟 + 5(3 + 8𝑟) = 151
3. Find the next two numbers in the following pattern: 3, 6, 9, 12, ___, ___
4. What is the number that comes BEFORE the following sequence: ____, 3, 9, 27, 81… ?
5. Simplify: - 5 + 8
6. Plot the point (1, 5) on the graph.
All Algebra 1 objectives are covered in Secondary I except the following:
 Never leave the big ideas!
 Numbers: order, simplify, classify (rational or irrational)
 1.1 Represent real numbers as points on the number line and distinguish rational numbers from
irrational numbers.
 1.2 Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates with rational and irrational numbers.
 Expressions and Equations: simplify/evaluate/solve
 Linear relationships (More than 50% of Core): slope/equations/representations/systems
 Polynomials: Simplify, factor, solve quadratics
 3.1 Simplify polynomials and the quotient of monomials.
 3.4 Factor polynomials with common monomial factors and factor simple quadratic expressions.
 3.5 Solve quadratic equations using factoring or by taking square roots.