Around the House
Four in a Row
Subtract Stacks
The Factor Game
Three Dice Take
Trios
Life Size Number Line
These life-size number lines can work with all ages and number ranges. Use whole numbers, fractions, or decimals to make it work for your grade level.
- Counting Forward
- Skip Counting
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Comparing
- Ordering
Roll the Dice and Move
Skip Count Hopscoch
A hopscotch board can be used for a lot of fun and active math games. Try it for skip counting: Kids hop along counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, or whatever you’re currently working on. Learn more at the link below.
Weighing
Grab a balance scale, linking cubes, and small toys. Have students put the small toy on one side and use the linking cubes to find its "weight" in cubes.
Leaping Lizards - Counting by 5
Kids will love the story and the funny illustrations by JoAnn Adinolfi. Parents and other educators will love how the story and pictures make understanding comparisons a breeze—as well as the concrete examples of how math works! The book contains activities for adults to do with kids to extend math into their own lives!
Plenty of Petals - Counting by 10
Sheep Won't Sleep - Counting by 2
But no one could sleep with a room full of bouncing, bleating, shedding animals. Determined to unravel her problem so she can get some sleep, Clarissa counts back down until she's all alone, and she can finally get some rest.
Sorting (PK K)
This game involves students looking for similarities and differences between Thanksgiving foods. This will help your students to classify objects from a Thanksgiving meal in different ways.
Show the the Data! (1 -5)
Everyone has a favorite part of Thanksgiving and usually it’s to do with the food! Get everyone talking by gathering data about a specific question or let students pick a Thanksgiving themed question they want to find out about.
Lower grades can make bar or pictographs while upper grades can make line plots, stem-and-leaf plots, or double bar graphs
So Many Sides! (4 - 6)
What would a Thanksgiving feast be without the sides? Use this activity to investigate how many sides students would need for their guests on Thanksgiving and how much it would cost.
For 4- 5, use whole number prices. For 6th, use those decimals!
