Would You Rather Math Prompts 1st Grade | Number Talks Number Sense Math Review

Would You Rather? Math Prompts are a routine to use during your math block to promote mental math flexibility and math justification. Your 1st grade math students will be presented with 2 choices and decide which choice is right for them by solving the computation and then explaining their decision.

There are 100 ready to go prompts for 1st grade math, and the best news of all... they are all PAPERLESS. No copies to print and store. Just display the prompt and go!

**A suggested answer key is provided for each option!**

There are 10 categories for this set that cover the following categories:

1. counting and skip counting
2. counting objects
3. place value
4. adding to 20
5. 3 addends
6. subtracting to 20
7. adding to 100
8. subtracting tens
9. time
10. beginning fractions

Would You Rather? math prompts have multiple benefits. The first one being student choice. Students have more buy in with math activities that provide opportunities of choice. They can pull from their own prior knowledge and life experiences to make a decision.

The second benefit is math justification, more specifically verbal math justification! Anytime you can get your students to participate in math talk, you are getting an opportunity to evaluate their math understanding at a deeper level.

And finally, WYR prompts promote math discourse between peers! Your students are learning from each other, not just you with this activity and there is power in peer learning!

There are multiple ways to use this resource:

• Number Talks
• Math Talks
• Start of the day/ bell ringer
• Math warmup before math block begins
• Small group rotations
• Intervention remediation
• Morning work
• Math journals

Benefits of this resource:

1. Builds number sense skills
2. Promotes student choice
3. Increase mental math skills
4. Grow student engagement
5. Equitable activity (there are no wrong answers- everyone can participate!)

This resource is right for you if…

• you are looking for new ways to increase number sense
• you are wanting fluency practice that is more than the typical drill and kill methods
• you are wanting your students to become problem solvers
• you love READY TO GO math activities