Summer Math Resources K-2

Tang Math Summer Challenge A fun and engaging math challenge using online games and books, designed to reinforce math skills during the summer break. Check out this Greg Tang math challenge for the summer. You can click these game boards for more information!

Shape, Shape, Shapes by Tana Hoban

The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle

Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews

Every Buddy Counts by Stuart Murphy

The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst

100 Days of School by Trudy Harris

The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

98, 99…Ready or Not, Here I Come! by Teddy Slater

Super Sand Castle Saturday by Stuart Murphy

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Cindy Neuschwander

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

Math for All Seasons by Greg Tang

The $1.00 Word Riddle Book by Marilyn Burns

Fraction Fun by David Adler

The Best of Times by Greg Tang

Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money by Amy Axelrod

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Games-Puzzles.aspx

https://www.funbrain.com/math-zone

http://www.aplusmath.com/

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/

http://www.gregtangmath.com/

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

http://bedtimemath.org

http://www.figurethis.org./index.html -(Multiple Language)

http://xtramath.org/- (Multiple Language)

• A Number Math App
• Time to Learn
• Bedtime Math (Multi Language)
• Everyday Mathematics - Addition Top it
• Domino Math
• Math Word Problems
• Know Your Math Facts
• Kindergarten Math:
• 10 Frame Fill
• Number Bond Blaster
• Number Rack
• Fast Facts Addition
• Fast Fact Subtraction

Do you have board games or playing cards around the house? Playing games such as these rely on skills necessary for math. Click on the link to find out how you might use playing cards to strengthen math skills. Top It Card Games

These activities will help SC Kindergarten students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• Draw and label a picture of your family from tallest to shortest.
• Count the number of steps it takes to get from your front door to the refrigerator. Represent this number.
• A full case of juice boxes has 10 boxes. There are only 3 boxes in this case. How many juice boxes are missing? Write your answer in a complete sentence. There are 7 juice boxes missing.
• Three dogs were playing in the park. One more dog came to play. How many dogs are playing in the park? There are 4 dogs playing in the park.
• Read Shape, Shape, Shapes by Tana Hoban. Walk outside. What shapes do you see? Draw all the shapes you see.
• Look at some of your toys. Try to sort them into groups. How many are in each group?
• How long is your room? Measure with blocks or toys. Measure with your feet. Which was more? Which is less?
• Use sidewalk chalk to write all the numbers (in order) that you can. (Use paper and pencil if you do not have chalk.)
• Toss ten pennies. How many heads? How many tails? Try again! Did you get the same result?

These activities will help SC First Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• Gather a handful of coins with a value less than $2.00. Calculate the total.
• If you save two cents every day in the month of June, how much money will you have saved at the end of the month?
• Take up to 20 pennies. Put some in each hand. Show 1 hand and have an adult figure out how many are hiding.
• Switch.
• Read 100 Days of School by Trudy Harris
• Find 5 different ways to reach 100. Record each way.
• Go on a Shape Hunt around your home. Look for items shaped like a square, rectangle, and a triangle. Draw and label the items.
• Sort the laundry into categories (owner, color or item type). Make a bar graph and compare the categories. How many more? Less?
• Roll two dice and practice addition and subtraction by adding or subtracting the two numbers.

These activities will help SC Second Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• 100 is the answer, what could the question possibly be? Challenge yourself to think of more questions.
• Pia was having a party. She put 10 stickers in each party bag. She made 12 bags with ten stickers in each one. How many stickers total were in her 12 bags?
• Play Hidden Picture Addition. www.aplusmath.com
• Ask an adult to teach you a card trick. Practice the trick and try it out on a friend. What math was involved?
• Plant a seed. Will it grow to be about 12 inches or 12 feet? How do you know? Measure and record the height twice a week to keep track of how high it grows.
• Play a strategy game like Othello or Checkers. Did your strategy work? Will you try a different strategy the next time you play?
• 500+60+8 is a number. Write it as a three-digit number. Write its name in words. Draw a picture to represent the number. Locate it on the number line.
• You have $1.50 in your pocket. Make a list of 10 different combinations of coins you could have in your pocket.