On this site you will find dozens of fall math ideas, games and activities for kids of all ages because it is one of my favorite times of the year. Today I'm adding to the fall math collection with a simple, yet engaging data activity for kids. Collecting, graphing and analyzing data is an essential math skill because kids will use this throughout their school career and even in their everyday lives. They need to be able to understand graphs and Keep Reading...
{FREE} Multiplication Four in a Row Game to Learn Facts
Normally over the summer, I'm really good about keeping my children involved in some type of learning activities. We may play math games, do computer work, or print off a few activities. This summer though, we were moving and many activities fell through the cracks. Well, we finally go moved, set a schoolroom, and life is back to normal...well as normal as life can be with four kids. But the beginning of this school year has been a little more Keep Reading...
{FREE} Editable Word Problem Templates: Help Kids Make Sense of Word Problems
One of the most common refrains I hear from parents and teachers is that their kids struggle most when faced with a word problem (or story problem). This is not surprising--a problem involving a single operation, with nothing to decipher or decision to make is straightforward. If the problem says to add, you add. If it is a long division expression, you divide. But a story that uses math to model the world around us takes computation to a whole Keep Reading...
Compare Decimals Cut & Paste Sort {FREE!}
Even before kids can count, their brains are able to distinguish between quantities (when the difference is significant). For example, if a toddler has a large pile of 15 blocks and you show him 2 blocks by comparison, he will know his pile is greater. As kids get older and develop more sophisticated visual spatial skills and counting skills, they are able to compare quantities in more complex situations. But learning to compare decimals adds a Keep Reading...
{FREE} Multiplying Decimals Word Problems Set
Whether our kids want to admit it or not, decimals are a part of our everyday life. And it's important that they feel confident doing basic computations with decimals. Even if they start to use a calculator, they still need to understand how to rightly apply operations with decimals to solve real world problems. If they don't know whether to multiply or add, using a calculator isn't going to help. So I hope this free set of multiplying decimals Keep Reading...
{FREE} Creative Math Writing Prompt: The Day the __ Quit!
Remember that time you wrote a fun and creative essay in math class? No? Yeah, me neither. But why shouldn't we include engaging creative writing in math? There are so many benefits to encouraging kids to write in math class. So allowing them to be creative while using math vocabulary and thinking openly about the subject seems like a no brainer to me. So when I read about this idea as an example of writing in math class in Linda Dacey's book, I Keep Reading...
{FREE} Convert Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers Using Visuals
My children love to color. They are always begging to print off a new coloring page off the computer. It is the perfect cool-down activity in the summer, and a great inside filler on cold winter days. But I love it when I can take something they love to do, and turn it into a learning activity. And that is what this activity does as kids use models to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers. Your children and my kiddos, get a chance to color Keep Reading...
{FREE} Adding Decimals Worksheets: Multiple Strategies
Typically, a math worksheet is filled with tedious computation problems. They cover the page with little to no room for writing out work and thinking, and can be so...boring. Well, today I want to share a set of adding decimals worksheets that are not your typical worksheet. Rather than a page filled with problems, each page has a single decimal addition problem, to be solved three different ways. Solving one problem using multiple methods and Keep Reading...
{FREE} 3-Digit Subtraction with Regrouping Game
It was the turning point for me. I was sitting in a college teaching class, and the base ten blocks came out. The instructor proceeded to inform us how to teach subtraction with regrouping using base ten blocks. Though he was there to teach me how to teach a concept, he actually brought an understanding that hadn't happened in years of schooling. Math had never been my subject. I didn't understand it. Definitely couldn't do it in my head. And Keep Reading...
{FREE} Taco Time: Tally and Bar Graph Practice
Looking for a fun and easy way to introduce your kids to data collection and analysis? You will love this simple tally and bar graph practice activity. What kid doesn't like tacos? Well, using this 'Taco Time' data collection page, kids can learn how to survey their friends to collect data, keep track using tally marks and then display the information with a bar graph. Data Collection: Using Tally Marks A very simple way for kids to learn Keep Reading...
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