Want to review math every day in your classroom, but don't have a lot of time? You've come to the right place! EdHelper has the ideas, strategies, and resources you need to do daily math with your students-no prep needed.

Here's how to get the most out of daily math practice along with direct access to this week's Daily Math picks, but first, let's talk a little bit more about why it's worth your time to do daily math activities.

With a demanding math curriculum, it's easy to wait to do math review until an upcoming test, but it's actually better to incorporate math review into your daily lesson plans.

Research has shown that students who learn through spaced practice outperform those who learn through massed practice. For example, students are much more likely to remember a math concept if they practice for just 5 or 10 minutes each day rather than spending 30 minutes reviewing it ahead of a test.

Daily math practice can serve as an informal assessment, helping you determine which concepts students are ready to move on from and which concepts they need to spend more time with. It can also save you time in the long run. Short, consistent review helps keep prior learning front of mind, so you can spend less time reteaching concepts students have forgotten.

Daily math practice only takes a few minutes a day, but with such a short time frame, it is important to make sure your students get the most out of the activities you choose.

Here are a few quick tips to make sure the daily math practice in your classroom is effective and fun!

• Vary the types of activities
• Make worksheets more interactive
• Keep practice pages short and sweet
• Make daily math practice part of your routine

Daily math review can get boring if worksheets are just lists of math equations for students to solve. There's nothing wrong with sprinkling in grade-level-appropriate equations, but students are more likely to remain engaged with review worksheets when you mix things up.

A few ways you can vary the types of problems include:

• Mix word problems with equations.
• Mix math practice with other subjects, like science.
• Incorporate puzzles and brain teasers.
• Incorporate other activities, like coloring or drawing.

Another way to make math review more fun, especially when students are completing worksheets, is to make them more interactive.

For example, students can:

• Use manipulatives to visualize the problems on a worksheet.
• See how many times they can spin a fidget spinner before completing a worksheet.
• Complete a worksheet with a partner.
• Correct the problems on a worksheet the teacher completed.
• Crumple worksheets and throw them like snowballs, and students complete the next problem on the page they catch.
• Cut and paste instead of writing the answers.

Daily math practice shouldn't take a lot of time. Just a few minutes every day will do it.

You can:

• Cut worksheets into strips and give students one strip to solve every day.
• Ask students to answer certain problems, like evens one day and odds the next day.
• Pass out short worksheets that can be taken home and completed as homework if students don't finish during class.
• Assemble math review packets and have students work through the packet at their own pace.

The best way to make sure your students get math practice is to make it part of your daily routine. When there's a spot for it in your day, students will be ready to get down to work.

A few ways to make daily math practice part of your routine include:

• Give students 5 minutes before every math lesson to work on math review problems.
• Have students grab a daily math review worksheet when they're finished with their classwork.
• Incorporate daily math practice worksheets into a learning center rotation.
• Add daily math practice worksheets to a bin of early finisher activities.
• Have students work on daily math practice during transition times, like after recess.

It's easy to get started with our Daily Math resources! All Daily Math pages are grade-level appropriate and feature skills that evolve throughout the school year. All practice pages are varied and are combined with puzzles and brain teasers to keep students engaged.

Here are some additional resources that can make daily math practice easier:

• Make Daily Math Practice Easier and More Fun With Math Problem of the Day Books
• Check out quick math minute worksheets that allow students to practice math skills when you have a gap in classroom time.
• Check out math workbooks that students can work on at their own pace, or you can pick specific pages for students to review.
• Create a bin of fast finishers with these worksheets.
• Let students play online math games to review math skills.