Here are some of my favorite activities:

(work in progress at the moment)

Icebreakers

• Venn Diagram Icebreaker (based on Dan Meyer’s Personality Coordinates Icebreaker)
• Personality Coordinates Icebreaker (Dan Meyer)

Stimulating Mathematical Thinking Tasks

• Card Tricks (Peter Liljedahl)
• Egg Timer Problem (Peter Liljedahl) – How do you make a 9 minute egg if all you have is a 4 minute and 7 minute egg timer?

Order of Operations

• Origami Folding Orders (Natasha Davidson)
• Make 100 with 1 through 9
• Four Fours
• Foxy Fives
• Make a Number Extensions

Algebra

• Stacking Cups

Trigonometry

• Pasta Activity (all over the internet)

Sequences/Series

• Story of Gauss

Probability

• Dishwashing Story (Peter Liljedahl)