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Math Activities

50+ Hands On and Engaging Math Activities

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When you need to change up your activity routine, try these fun and engaging math activities! These won’t just keep them engaged but also help with their skills.

Work on a math puzzle or play a math game

  1. Memory
  2. BlackJack
  3. Monopoly
  4. Tangrams
  5. Chutes and Ladders
  6. Mastermind
  7. Make up games with cards or dice
  8. Dominoes
  9. Rummy
  10. Yahtzee
  11. Pig

Read a story with math in it or math figures

based on favorites by teachers and parents!
  1. Zero by Kathryn Otoshi
  2. The Math Curse
  3. The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
  4. Blockhead: the life of Fibonacci
  5. On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
  6. The Grapes Of Math
  7. The Monster Who Did My Math
  8. Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
  9. All of the ones by Stuart J Murphy
  10. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
  11. Sir Cumference Book Series Complete Set Pack ( Books 1- 10 )
  12. Count on Frank
  13.  The Girl with a Mind for Math
  14. Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
  15. The Phantom Tollbooth
  16. Chasing Vermeer

Solve a real-world math problem (money, counting, comparisons, calculations)

  1. Go shopping – comparisons, measurement
  2. Build something – measurement
  3. Design a product – shapes, material costs, estimation
  4. Cooking – measurements, fractions
  5. Gardening – lots of opportunities to talk about the area, perimeter, multiplication, and factors
  6. Create a “store” and have your student work out the budget or sales tax

Make up funny rhymes or songs to help memorize facts, or find some math songs and learn them.

  1. Counting songs
  2. Multiplication songs
  3. Quadrilateral songs
  4. Pi songs
  5. Quadratic equation 🙂

Work on a math project or investigation.

  1. Learn about pi (and the history of pi)
  2. Learn about math history
  3. Play with origami
  4. Create a tessellation
  5. Create a drawing with geometric shapes
  6. Draw a fractal

Interact with online games and manipulatives

  1. Use Desmos to draw and graph different types of lines
  2. Use Geogebra to interact with angles and relationships
  3. “Drive” race cars and play against other students in Math Playground

Have your student make a math poster or presentation of what they have learned.

  1. Let your student have fun with colors, magazines, poster paper, cuttings, photos
  2. Have your child make a Powerpoint presentation or a Prezi

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