Creative teacher ideas and activities to teach math.
It just may become Seussville in your classroom this March with the celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday! Here are 13 ideas to use in the classroom that are fun ways to use Dr. Seuss art, snacks, books and activities. I hope these can be time savers if you’re looking for ways to teach about Dr. …
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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, get students practicing their math skills by adding doubles. This Valentine’s Day Addition Doubles Game has a set of cards to match up the addition fact with the answer. I’ve also included a recording sheet to go along with the matching cards or separately later to check for mastery. This …
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Dr. Seuss math games and classroom activities can bring fun into Common Core standards. You’ll find Seuss-inspired word problems, basic operations, and fractions in this list of free downloads. Practice math skills in fun ways that promote explaining/documenting their thinking or give them practice in a fun way making it a cinch to fit in! …
Are you getting ready for your 100th day of school? Get out of your normal math routine with these fun STEM challenges for your 100th day from Bethany at Math Geek Mama! This FREE download includes 2 different challenges. The first uses 100 LEGO bricks, and the second uses 100 pattern blocks. Students have to …
Add a fun game to your math centers with this free Christmas roll and cover. Here is a free printable Roll and Cover math game that has Santa and is festive with green, red and white. Roll and cover games are a great way to practice addition. This game is for two players and works …
Make a Christmas tree in any grade level with math skills to make it happen. Want a fun and open-ended math activity to keep kids engaged and thinking creatively before heading off for Christmas break? This free math activity from Bethany at Math Geek Mama is perfect because it can be used with any age …
What happens if you take teachers who create and throw in a little Christmas spirit? Free worksheets! Here are 23 Christmas worksheets for kindergarten and first grade to use in December. You’ll find worksheets with the Gingerbread Man, Santa, the Polar Express, the Elf on the Shelf and lots of other festive worksheets too. Be sure to …
Feel ‘thankful’ for a free kindergarten worksheet. Here is a pilgrim patterns worksheet for pre-k or kindergarten. This free download is just right to use in November and to celebrate Thanksgiving. It covers basic patterning for young students with coloring practice. Free Kindergarten Worksheet – Pilgrim Patterns Students color the boy and girl pilgrims to match …
Leaves are changing color. Fall is here! It’s time to break out the fall and Thanksgiving learning tools. Here is a fantastic resource list of 54 things to help with lesson planning. You’ll find math freebies, language arts free downloads plus fun and fast ideas like how to make a Thanksgiving retell bracelet. There’s no shortage …
Bust out the themed math to keep candy-craving kids on track in the classroom. Use these 10 pages of free Halloween worksheets for second grade math. These worksheets cover skills like comparing numbers in the hundreds, expanded form and finding missing addends. Second Grade Halloween Worksheets What do you call a skeleton who won’t work? Solve …
One fabulous idea that I see pinned over and over is a Boggle Board for the classroom. You take a bulletin board or wall display area and turn it into a giant Boggle Board for students to use as an activity to come up with as many word combinations as possible. Well…….I’ve been wanting a …
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Shake it up long after Easter is over by using Easter Eggs for lots of lesson plans. Here are 9Â ways you can use those eggs on sale to work on math and reading. You’ll love this hack to keep your hard work in tact if you’re going to write on Easter eggs. Keep students engaged …
Looking for an easy way to weave some math practice into your day? This April Problem of the Day calendar from Bethany at Math Geek Mama is fun and simple to use! Each day of the month there is a new math problem for kids to solve. The fun twist is that the solution is …
Work on division skills with third grade with a printable scoot game. Here is a Valentine’s Day themed printable game to practice dividing within 100. Get your students moving around the classroom before a holiday party with a scoot game – they move around the classroom to solve each word problem. Valentine’s Day Division Game …
When Valentine’s Day rolls around, its fun to bring out themed activities like this Valentine’s Day Doubles Roll, Add, Cover Game. It’s great for use during morning time or during math centers. Valentine’s Day Doubles Roll, Add, Cover Game Directions: Students roll a dice. Each dice number means an answer to a doubles fact. For …
Practice addition and subtraction to 10 or practice multiplying by 5. I have made a color by codes worksheet for Christmas. One is color by codes with addition and subtraction. The other is multiplication with multiples of 5. I am having my very own Twelve Days of Christmas! You won’t find any french hens or gold rings …
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Get in the groovy cat Christmas spirit with a free greater than or less than printable activity. Here is a Pete the Cat Saves Christmas activity for first or second grade. Compare numbers to 100 using the less than, greater than symbols. If you’re working on comparing numbers, add this to your lesson plans! Greater …
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Scoot games are a fun way to practice any standard and get kids moving around the classroom. Here are 5 scoot games for kids, plus scoot game rules and a scoot games template in case you want to make your own or create one for leaving with a substitute teacher. Scoot games often involve task cards, worksheets or recording sheets. Scoot …
Multiplication is a standard to quickly recognize adding groups of numbers. Here are 14 easy activities, anchor charts and tips to use with a few multiplication worksheets included. I hope you will find these helpful in planning how to best teach math to your third grade and fourth grade students. Free Multiplication Activities 1. City Scape Multiplication …
Teaching how to tell time start with learning telling time to the hour and half hour. Here are 18 quick resources including activities, telling time worksheets and printables. I hope you find these free teacher-created resources and lesson plan ideas helpful. Let’s start by checking out some activities to practice telling time to the hour. …
Math games are perfect for teaching beginning addition to kindergarten students. Here is a simple partner game that can easily be differentiated. It’s called grab-bag addition and this cool math game requires little set up and includes a printable recording sheet. Featured from Teaching Idea Tuesday Math Games – Grab Bag Addition Students work in partners …
Teaching cool math for kids is a great way to get them hooked! Here is a trick that will make your first graders want to practice counting to 120 (or 100) over and over again. They will want to master quickly finding the numbers in order and play this trick on someone else. Featured from Teaching …
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I have a great activity for your little ones on my HeidiSongs Resource blog this week, especially if they like Pete the Cat! It’s a matching sets activity in which you put the correct amount of buttons on Pete’s shirt, according to the number that is written on the paper. I think it is …
I’ve created two great games that would work great for January math stations. Hop on over to Heather’s Heart to grab this Save the Snowman and a Winter Tally freebie! How To Play Save the Snowman Students play in pairs. Each kiddo has their own game board and 12 cubes or counters. Players take turns rolling the …
Right before the break I had my first grade kids do a number spree. I am very happy to report that we did VERY well, but some of us got snagged up on that little fellow number 110. Many of my students left in their zeros so we ended up in the thousands. So in …
I am so pumped to get the chance to post on this amazing blog! My name is Amy Hoffmann and I am a third grade teacher. So have you heard the buzz about Singapore Math? Our district has been teaching Singapore Math for the past couple of years and our math scores have shot through the …
Our state standardized math test is coming up which means it is review time! My kids still struggle to understand that units of measurement have categories. Let me share what I mean. For example, they want to use meters for capacity. Or liters for length. (I know, it makes no sense) So to help them recognize which category …
I think one of the most important things I learned about my own teaching after going through the new State evaluation model this past year was that I spend more time planning my lessons for whole-group than I do for the work I do with small groups. Laney Sammons’ provides some great insights on small …
I just finished a new set of math word wall posters!  I created 6 posters that feature: reflection translation rotation turn slide flip Here is a preview of the posters… Head on over to download these for free… Continue Reading On My Blog – Originally posted on Teaching Blog Addict | Submit Your Tip | More Math …
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My fourth graders struggle with knowing what is a polygon and what is not a polygon. I’ve found that if students have had little experience with irregular polygons, then they have the misconception that only familiar shapes (regular trapezoid, regular hexagon, regular decagon, etc.) are polygons. What I’m excited for them to learn is that …
My class is really into using foldables in our math notebooks. Back in the fall, we made the following foldable when we studied some of the properties of multiplication. Underneath each flap we wrote about each property and included examples. I have uploaded this foldable for you to download for FREE. The properties of multiplication …
Here is an activity that is great to use for students to practice their length measuring skills. Send them on a classroom Measuring Scavenger Hunt! The activity can be done as independent practice, in pairs, or even groups… however you choose to manage it. The free download is asks 10 questions. You can select either …
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We finally wrapped up our 2D shapes unit. I have a few 2D shapes freebies for you so come by my blog to check out each of these activities in more detail. Take your kindergarten students on a shape hunt around the classroom. Print this free activity sheet and students carry it around on a clipboard as …
Here are three free game board games that you can use in your classroom. These work well with phonics skills or math facts. I have had different experiences throughout my teaching career. I spent my first 3 years as a reading teacher for struggling students K-5. I’ve also been a Differentiated Instruction coach and Team Leader. My experiences …
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At Math Camp we used response boards quite a bit during activities to respond to questions, problems, etc. A response board is basically a little chalkboard. You write on it with chalk and can erase it very easily. My two camp buddies and I headed to Michael’s on one of the nights in search of contact paper …
If youâre like most parents in todayâs environmentally conscious world, youâre always looking for ways to reuse, reduce or recycle containers, boxes, bottles or egg cartons. Here’s yet another use for an egg carton that can provide your first grader with the opportunity to practice the important math skills of number recognition and sequencing in …
