A Daily Math Warm-Up for Your Class
The Daily Challenge has 20 new questions every day, and every student who plays that day gets the same ones. There's nothing to set up. Post the link and your class can start.
The link never changes. mathminute.com/daily always opens that day's challenge, so you can post it once and leave it up. Use Google Classroom? Share to Google Classroom.
What students do
Students open the link and press Play. There's no countdown, so everyone finishes. A stopwatch runs while they play, and most students are done in under three minutes.
The first 11 questions are basic facts: addition, subtraction, times tables to 12, and division. The other 9 change every day and come from topics like money, rounding, fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers, and square roots. The last question is always order of operations, a one-step equation, or a two-step word problem.
At the end, students see their score, their time, and what percent of today's players they beat. They also get a row of colored squares, one per question: green for fast, yellow for slower, red for a miss.
Which grades
It works best from 3rd grade up. The start is easy on purpose, so every student gets a run of right answers before it gets hard. Younger students can play too, but expect them to miss most of the second half.
One official run per device
Each day, the first finished run on a device is the official one, and it's the score that counts in the day's results. After that, students can replay the same questions as practice. They still see a score and time, but it doesn't change their official result.
On Chromebooks where each student signs in to their own account, every student gets an official run. If students share one computer and one sign-in, only the first student's run counts.
Seeing how your class did
There's no teacher dashboard for the Daily Challenge, because nobody signs in. If you want to see results, have students press Copy result at the end and paste it into a Classroom comment. It shows their score, time, and colored squares without giving away any answers.
If you'd rather have names on a leaderboard, or pick the skills yourself, make a Class Challenge. Choose your options in game settings, check Class Challenge under Share These Settings, and generate a link. Everyone who opens it gets the same questions, and you get a results page with each student's score and time. Students can add a name after they play.
Student privacy
Students don't make accounts or type their names to play the Daily Challenge. For each official run, the server keeps the score and time and nothing that says who played. Streaks and past results stay in the student's own browser. The privacy page has the details.
When it changes
A new challenge starts at midnight Eastern time, so a whole U.S. school day runs on one set of questions. Your first period and your last period get the same 20.
On paper
The mad minute drills are one-page fact sheets for a one-minute timer, each with an answer key.