Math Activities and Games
Math activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy math activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.
Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?
What better way to help your first grader get a grip on measurement than with his own body parts? Here's a "hands-on "activity to help your child learn about four kinds of measurements using only a hand and a few household items.
Make an Egg Carton Advent Calendar
This homemade advent calendar, stocked with sweet treats and little gifts, may make the month of December go a little faster. Plus, it will help your preschooler practice counting, an important foundation for kindergarten math.
Make a Pasta Pattern Necklace
Rainy day? Stuck inside? Beading is one of those activities that never seems to get stale. Here's a pasta-bead project to enjoy with your kindergartener while getting a little math practice in, too.
Wolfie Wolf! An Outdoor Math Game
Want to support your child's counting and reading skills at the same time? Here's a great playground game that puts academic learning together with running, shouting, and laughs - stuff that's pretty much irresistible for kids of all ages!
Pitch and Hit Data
Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely. Combining an analytical activity, like graphing, with real world experiences shows your child that math is all around him.
Play the Number Sentence Game
Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols. So shuffle the cards and let the game begin! First player to make the most "true" number sentences wins!
Make a Number Game
This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers. He'll be using all of these skills in the middle grades, when he uses numbers, decimals, fractions, and percents to describe operations, computations, measurements, and patterns
"Scrambled Egg" Math
First graders spend lots of time learning how to handle double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build up those skills and have some old fashioned family fun, too.
Egg Carton Addition!
Using nothing fancier than and egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.
Make Milk Carton Houses for Learning Math
Save those old milk cartons, do some crafts - and help your kid learn math while you're at it! Try this whimsical, imaginative activity to make counting fun for your kindergarten child.
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