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.
Make Giant Dice!
Here's a way to put numbers and letters - key kindergarten math and reading skills - together while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play.
Weave a Paper Thanksgiving Placemat
Let your first grader contribute to your Thanksgiving table with this fun paper weaving activity ... while extending handwriting and math skills at the same time!
Craft Corn Harvest Napkin Rings
Let your kindergartener help make your Thanksgiving special with these beaded napkin rings. While she's decorating your table, you'll also be giving her extra math patterning practice and helping her understand the meaning of the holiday.
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.
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.
Play the Fish for Numbers Game!
Is your child struggling with number recognition? Here's a great way to go fishing for numbers that will feel more like play than counting practice!
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.
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
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.
