Math can and should be fun. Try out some of these activities to see how math = fun.
First let’s listen to a story about wacky ways to compare height! How Tall?
Everyone loved the first math story so here are two more: How Big? and How Heavy?
Now let’s try some fun card games. Click to download: Naughty Nines, Speed, Go Fish Sums
How about trying to make a paper airplane and measure how far it flies? Click to download Paper Planes
Do you know how big your table is at home. Try this fun way to measure it. Click to download Measure a Table
Did you like that? Was it fun to measure your table? Well, try to measure a box. Click to download Capacity
Here’s a really fun game called Which One Doesn’t Belong. Click to download WOBD Card and WOBD template
The following fun activities can be printed out and used to help improve number recognition. Have students cut out their own cards to help improve fine motor skills. Then allow them to sort the cards in order to show the different ways to represent each number:
Learning Shapes Using Dot to Dots:
- Dot to Dot – Pentagon
- Dot to Dot – Hexagon
- Dot to Dot – Heptagon
- Dot to Dot – Octagon
- Dot to Dot – Nonagon
- Dot to Dot – Decagon
- Dot to Dot – Star
Numbers and Tally Practice: (This is fun practice of lessons we learned in class before Spring Break)
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