Are you getting ready to start your graphing unit? Let me help! I'm sharing my favorite graphing activities. This includes books, hands-on activities, and easy ways to get kids learning to read, interpret, and create a variety of graphs.
With Groundhog Day just around the corner, I wanted to share some coloring pages that your students will love. These activities are not only a great way to celebrate Groundhog Day, but they also reinforce the math skills students have learned so far this school year.
Place value is an important concept that helps kids understand numbers and how they work. Here are a variety of fun and interactive place value games and activities to help students learn and better understand place value.
Students need a lot of addition and subtraction practice. This helps them develop the fact fluency they need as they move on to larger math problems. While flash cards have their place in the classroom, they aren't the only way to practice. Here are some fun ways to practice addition and subtraction. Not only are these activities engaging, but they are low-prep to help save you time.
Many students need additional practice with their fact fluency. I like to make sure they have a solid foundation with addition facts to ten before moving onto larger problems. Here's a fun dice game with a bowling theme to help students practice addition to ten.
If you're a primary teacher, you have probably taught your students about fact families. These not only help with fact fluency, but they give students the strategies they will need to help make adding and subtracting larger numbers easier. If you're looking to make this time a little more fun and meaningful for your students, check out these fact family games and activities.
Multiplication facts are an important building block for so many math skills, but many students struggle to learn their facts. How can we help? We can teach them vocabulary and strategies, but we also need to make time for hands-on learning and games. Here are some fun ways to practice multiplication.
Do your students need more practice with counting coin combinations? Try a game! This coin toss game is easy to set up and your students will have fun while learning.
When students have a solid understanding of their doubles facts, it enables them to work on other mental math strategies. In order to do this, kids need many opportunities to practice these math facts. Here are some fun ways to practice doubles.
Telling time can be tricky for kids, especially in a world where digital clocks are everywhere. Learning to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill, but it doesn't have to be boring. Here are some fun games and activities to help your child with telling time.
Making ten is a key building block that helps students mentally add bigger numbers as they get older. So how can we make sure kids know all of their tens partners or ways to make 10? We practice! Here are some of my favorite games and activities for making ten.
Hundreds charts are a valuable tool for helping kids master counting skills, developing number sense, recognizing patterns, and more. Here are some of my favorite hundreds chart activities and games to try in the classroom or at home.
Looking for a way to get students to use dominoes in an engaging and meaningful way? These independent dominoes activities help students practice addition and subtraction, odd and even numbers, ordering numbers, and more!
Kids love to play dice games, but some teachers shy away from them due to management issues and lack of time. When you combine dice games your students can play independently AND practice math skills at the same time, it's a win-win situation for the classroom. I want to share my favorite math dice games that your students can play in the classroom or from home.
