1st Grade Number Sense Activities

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this first grade math card game.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

This countdown to Christmas craft is fun for kids who are excited for the holiday. Countdown to Christmas with this fun holiday activity.

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.