This document contains 30 writing prompts for math students. The prompts ask students to reflect on how they have used math outside of school, describe their favorite and least favorite parts of math lessons, explain math concepts to absent students or teachers, compare different math operations, and set goals for their math learning. The prompts are intended to help students make connections between math and their daily lives and reflect on their math learning.

1. 30 Math Writing Prompts
1. Make a list of how you have used math this week.
Examples:
-alarm clock with numbers
-money at McDonalds
-Bus driving 30 mph
2. If I were an inch tall…
3. If I were twelve inches tall…
4. What was my favorite part of today’s lesson?
5. What was my least favorite part of today’s lesson?
6. If I worked with a partner, what did I do to help?
7. Write the directions for how to work the problem.
8. Write a letter to the teacher telling him/her something you
learned in math.
9. Write a letter to the teacher asking him/her about something you
didn’t understand.
10. Write a letter to an absent student telling him/her what they
missed.
11. Make a Venn diagram for addition and subtraction, or
multiplication and division.
12.Write instructions for completing a problem.
13. Describe uses for what we learned today in class.
14. Design a math bumper sticker.
15. Design a math slogan for the class.
16. Explain how you feel about mathematics now as compared to when
you were in a different grade. The difference between... and ... is...
17. Draw a picture of what we did in math today.
18. My goal for this year in math is________
19. Find something similar in today’s lesson to something I have
already learned and compare the two.
20. This is how I used math at home________

2. 21. In math this week, I discovered___________
22. I wish I knew more about_________
23. What is important about telling time?
24. What is important about money?
25. How does my family use fractions at home?
26. Create a timeline of what I’ve learned in math since
kindergarten.
27. The most important thing I learned in math is…..
28. Tips I would give to a friend about this math problem…
29. Invent a new shape-name it, draw it, and tell how it is used.
30. The most important part of solving a problem is…..
-Compiled by M. Winfield