Do you have themed weeks or unit studies with your Kindergartners? Or do you have an animal unit as part of your science studies? Or maybe you just need some low-prep review to assess your kiddos. This set of Kindergarten math worksheets is easy and FUN for your kids, covering a wide range of math skills. Combine them with hands on activities in the classroom, or send home as easy practice over the summer, or have them ready for low-prep sub plans.

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Kindergarten Math Skills Covered:

Although this is designed for Kindergarten, you could use a variety of these worksheets with Pre-K students as well. Learn more about teaching math in Preschool here.

Here are the math skills you’ll find on the included pages:

• Counting and writing numbers
• Addition within 10
• Sequencing (what number comes next?)
• Count and graph (coloring a bar graph)
• Recognizing even and odd numbers
• Counting by 2’s
• Counting by 5’s
• Subtraction within 10
• Count & represent quantities on a ten frame

Altogether there are 10 kindergarten math worksheets in the pdf file.

Prepping the Materials:

For the most part, all you need to do is print the page(s) you need and pass them out to students, along with colored pencils or crayons!

For the even and odd pages, students will need scissors and glue to cut and paste as they sort the even numbers from the odd numbers.

Interactive Kindergarten Math Worksheets:

The goal with these worksheets is to provide meaningful practice in a way that is fun and useful for building a deep understanding.

This means you will find fun safari animals on each page that kids can color, improving their fine motor skills alongside their math skills.

You’ll also find visual models to help kids “see” math, numbers and quantities, because this is essential for the brain to learn and comprehend math.

It also means kids will have the opportunity to engage with math and apply it, rather than simply spitting out answers through rules or memorization.

For example, you will find a graphing page in this download that encompasses a variety of skills in one activity.

To begin, students must count and color each type of animal. I recommend they keep track of their count using tally marks. This is yet another important subitizing visual for kids to “see” a quantity in a new way.

Then they color in the corresponding number of bars on the bar graph to represent each animal.

This allows them to see how many there are of each type all in one place, and easily compare numbers.

As a follow up, ask your students questions to make sense of the data in their graph, such as:

• Are there more monkeys or zebras? How do you know?
• What number of animals is the greatest? The least? How do you know?
• If there were 2 more rhinos, how many would there be?
• How many more monkeys to we need to make 5? How many more hippos would we need?

Combine the Worksheets with Hands On Materials:

If it’s helpful or necessary, encourage your kids to grab hands on manipulatives to help them solve the problems.

For example, to add or subtract, they can use blocks or other small objects to represent the problem and solve it.

Or when sorting the even and odd numbers, encourage them to count out the total number using blocks and then try to put the blocks into two equal groups.

If they can split it into two equal groups with no block leftover, they know the number is even. Otherwise, it is odd.

Obviously, some of the numbers on the worksheets are too big to count out and divide with hands on objects, but encourage those who are struggling to do so with the smaller numbers first.

Then ask them if they notice any patterns to help them with the bigger numbers.

If they’re still struggling, encourage them to keep track of the numbers 1-10 on a white board (sort them even v. odd) and then see if they notice a pattern. If not, continue up to 20.

Lastly, you’ll also find a page to represent numbers in a ten frame. Ten frames are another helpful way for students to visualize numbers, as well as deepen their understanding of our base ten system. It will be essential as they get older that students can recognize ways to “make ten.” This means knowing pairs of numbers whose sum is equal to ten.

As with the graphing exercise, follow up the activity with questions such as:

• How many more giraffes are needed to make ten?
• How can we use the ten frame to solve 10 – 4?
• Can you write an addition equation to represent how many more hippos are needed to make ten?

Overall, I hope this collection of kindergarten math worksheets provides a useful overview of important math skills, whether you use them as end of year review, along with each corresponding math unit, as a homework packet, in your sub plans or any other time of the year!

1, 2, 3, Animals! Counting Book

Looking for a fun picture book to read along with the counting and tracing worksheets? Check out my picture book, 1, 2, 3, Animals!

In this book, kids will hear about and count the animals as they prepare for their show. Then, they count backwards until the show is over!

>>Learn more about 1, 2, 3, Animals! on Amazon HERE.

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Looking for more early math fun? Check out the links below!

• See the Whole Collection of FREE Kindergarten-1st Grade Math Printables
• {FREE} Ordinal Numbers Game for Kindergarten-First Grade
• Apple Ten Frame Games for Kindergarten {FREE}
• The BEST Counting Books for Kids

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What is it?

Equivalent fractions! And like most concepts, there are numerous ways to teach it. Today I want to share a fun and simple equivalent fractions game printable that incorporates multiple representations.

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This is a guest post from Rachel at You’ve Got This Math.

Teaching Equivalent Fractions

Visual Models

Using a visual model to teach equivalent fractions is essential. Though there are many ways to do this, I love pulling out pattern blocks. You can find an equivalent fraction to 1/2 in a matter of minutes. How?

Here’s an example:

• First, have the children put down two hexagons.
• Next, have the children put a trapezoid on each hexagon to represent 1/2.
• Finally, have them fill up one trapezoid with triangles.

Now the students can see that 1/2 can also be 3/6.

(If they struggle to figure out the denominator, you can have the students fill the whole hexagons with triangles.)

You can get more ideas for using pattern blocks to work on equivalent fractions here, or model fractions using food (Hershey’s chocolate bars work well ).

Number Lines

Number lines are another great way to help children visualize equivalent fractions. When you create one number line and then place another directly underneath children can find equivalent fractions. In this example, children can easily see that 1/2 is equal to 2/4!

You may also want to combine these fraction tiles with a number line to help them better connect the ideas and correctly visualize the various fractions.

Get a number line for equivalent fractions here.

Equation

The “traditional” way of teaching fractions is through an equation, and it is still important to teach this while you teach students through number lines and models.

We all know that 1/2 x 2/2 = 2/4, but children need to taught this equation too!

But rather than starting here, help them to “see” and develop their understanding first, then help them to connect the equation to the visual model.

Prep – Work For Equivalent Fractions Game Printable

1. First, print the game board on card stock paper
2. Next, print the game cards and cut them out
3. Finally, gather up game pieces (unifix cubes, beads, etc.) and white board and dry erase marker

How to Play this Visual Equivalent Fractions Game

The game is very simple to play, with two levels.

The object of the game is to be the first player to reach the finish. 

The first board is filled with easy fraction models such as 1/2, 1/3, 3/4, etc.

The next board has fractions that are a little harder like 3/8 and 4/5.

To begin, players draw a fraction card and then have to find the closest equivalent fraction model on the game board.

(I suggest that you have them prove that the fractions are equivalent by having them show a number line, visual model, or equation using their white board.)

If a player draws a picture card, they move to that picture on the board even if it is moving backwards.

It is then player’s two turn, and they follow the same procedures!

Players take turns until they have an equivalent fraction that is not in front of their game piece. They then move to the END space!

The first player to reach the end wins!

Children enjoy practicing and reviewing math concepts with games. They also enjoy challenging each other to “prove” their answer! So I hope they enjoy practicing with this equivalent fractions game printable.

You’ve Got This,

Rachel

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Want more equivalent fraction games? Try these:

• Oh No, Fraction Man
• Equivalent Fraction Bingo

Rachel is a homeschool mom to four little ones, ages 2 to 6. She is a former public elementary teacher, and has recently begun blogging at her page You’ve Got This. You can also find her on Facebook and Pinterest.

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Measuring Dinosaurs Activity for Kids:

After receiving the book, I left it out for the kids to discover, look through and read on their own. This piqued their interest and they began asking to read it together. My older two would also share fun facts they learned about certain dinosaurs.

Eventually, we sat down to explore the book together to search for answers to some of their questions. I also showed them the slides and we compared the bones and their sizes.

This book is SO packed with information, it definitely requires more than one read through!

So after we read and compared the different dinosaurs, I pointed out the various sizes of some of their favorites.

Did you know that a Tyrannosaurus Rex would be anywhere from 33 to 43 feet long and had the largest teeth of any land dinosaur?

Because this book is organized so nicely by type of dinosaur, we were able to compare and contrast the different types by size.

As we considered just how large some of these great animals were, however, it because clear that these numbers are difficult for young kids to comprehend.

A Diplodocus is 80-100 feet long? Sounds big, but just how big is it?

So rather than just reading about the sizes of dinosaurs, we decided to actually measure them and compare!

Materials Needed for Dinosaur Measuring Activity:

If you would like to measure dinosaurs with your kids, it’s very simple and only requires a few materials:

• Scanorama: Dinosaurs
• Sidewalk chalk
• Measuring tape (or a large piece of string and a ruler)

A quick note: we used this beautiful book, but other books about dinosaurs that include measurements would also work! Or, you could do a quick google search or watch some kids friendly videos on YouTube to learn about different types of dinosaurs and their sizes.

Once you’ve gathered the materials, just decide which dinosaurs to measure!

Comparing Dinosaur Sizes:

We decided to measure the bone-headed dinosaurs first.

Each page offers the “top 5” of that particular type of dinosaur. It then gives a brief description of the animal, including the length.

Because the length is given as a range, we measured the smaller number in the range. I would then explain that this dinosaur was at least this long, maybe longer.

You could use the larger value, just be sure to be consistent. For instance, don’t measure the smaller value of the range for some dinosaurs, but the upper value for others.

To compare all five bone-headed dinosaurs, we started our measuring tape at the same place on our driveway for each dinosaur.

Then, I simply held it while my kids pulled out the measuring tape to the right length.

Finally, a child who was not measuring would draw a line with chalk to show the length of the dinosaur.

Once we had drawn the length of all five, we were able to compare and they answered questions such as, “Which one is the smallest?” “Which one is the longest?”

I also challenged my daughter (second grade) to calculate how much longer the dinosaurs were than her. This was a great mental math exercise.

We also saw that two of the dinosaurs were about the same size.

Measuring 100 feet:

The longest of the bone-headed dinosaurs was approximately 30 feet. When my kids saw how long that is, they marveled at how big the dinosaurs must have been.

At this point, I brought their attention to the long-necked dinosaurs.

Some of these dinosaurs were 100 feet long (or longer!). Again, understanding the incredible size of these giants is hard for any of us to imagine, so we decided to measure out 100 feet.

This was another great opportunity to put their math skills to work. Because not only did they have to measure out 100 feet, they had to figure out how to get to 100 feet.

Our measuring tape only goes to 25 feet. This gave us the opportunity to talk about money and how many quarters are in a dollar, as well as fractions. 25 is one fourth of 100. So you have to measure 25 4 times to get to 100.

This also meant we had to measure in the road (our driveway is definitely not 100 feet long). So if you don’t live on a quiet road away from cars like we do, you may need to find somewhere else to do this activity.

My kids took turns measuring and drawing lines with chalk until we had a 100 foot chalk line going down our street.

It was so fun to stand at either end and picture just how big the Supersaurus would have been!

My kids said, “I bet it was taller than our house,” and “I’m sure it could eat the leaves at the top of that tree!”

It was really a fun way to help them understand length, measuring and comparing numbers.

Other Math Ideas to do with Scanorama: Dinosaurs

• In addition to measuring, we spent time looking at the table of contents and using it to practice skip counting
• Graph the lengths of all the dinosaurs to compare: This would make a fun activity to work on graphing and analyzing a graph
• Find the average lengths: Use the length ranges to practice calculating averages, and measure or graph the average length of all the dinosaurs

What ideas would you add to this list?

Looking for more fun, hands on measuring activities for kids? Try one of these!

• Measuring trees: math in nature
• Printable measuring lesson

Want to take your measurement lessons a step further? Explore fractions with rulers! This is a great visual model for all kinds of fraction concepts!

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August Problem of the Day Calendar:

This download includes two different calendars, one that focuses on math concepts for grades K-2, and another that focuses on skills for grades 3-5.

Each calendar is a simple, black and white August 2016 calendar, which includes a math problem on each day of the month.

The unique twist is that for each problem, the solution is equal to the date.

This allows students to self-check their work, if they know what the solution should be.

It also means, however, that they could “solve” the problems without actually doing the work. So just be sure to talk through each problem and require students to justify or explain their solution.

A creative way to use this that wouldn’t allow students to simply write the answer is to turn it into a puzzle.

Simply cut the calendar apart, then let students solve the problems and glue them in the correct order onto a blank August calendar.

Other Ideas to Incorporate the August Problem of the Day Calendar:

• Use it as a daily warm up as soon as class (or your homeschool day) begins
• Use it with your daily calendar time and discuss other calendar math after completing the daily problem. For example, how many more days are in the month? Or, how many days until…(next holiday, someone’s birthday, etc.)
• Have a “Math Challenge Monday” and complete the entire week at once

Or use it any way you please to incorporate fun math review into your school routine!

Math Concepts Covered on the K-2 Calendar:

• Addition and subtraction within 20
• Early multiplication (equal groups)
• Math vocabulary
• Telling time
• Money: adding coins
• Word problems
• Comparing numbers
• Place value

Math Concepts Covered on the 3-5 Calendar:

• Addition and subtraction with 2-3 digit numbers
• Multiplication and division
• Math vocabulary
• Area and perimeter
• Word problems
• Fractions
• Place value

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Want to grab a copy of past calendars? See them all by clicking the links below:

• July Calendar
• June Calendar
• May Calendar
• April Calendar
• March Calendar
• February Calendar

I hope this calendar is a fun way to get back into the groove as you gear up for back to school!

Do you use this in your home or classroom differently? Share in the comments!

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How to Use the May Problem of the Day Calendar:

If this is the first time you’re trying out my problem of the day calendars, let me explain. This is more than simply a math problem to solve each day of the month.

These are unique because the solution is equal to the date.

This allows for kids to self-check.

This is also helpful if the problem is a little more advanced than your child is used to, because though they may not know how to solve it right away, they know what the solution is supposed to be.

They can then use problem solving strategies and prior knowledge to try and solve it.

Obviously, you will want to use the daily problem to have a math discussion, because kids could simply write the answer without doing the math. So just be sure they know they must explain their thinking for each problem.

And as always, these calendars are in black and white on a single page for easy printing.

Included in the May Math Problem of the Day Calendar Pack:

This download includes 2 different versions, one for grades K-2 and one for grades 3-5 (labeled for your convenience).

Topics Covered on the K-2 Calendar:

• Addition and subtraction within 20
• Place value
• Early multiplication
• Comparing numbers
• Sequences
• Word problems

Topics Covered on the 3-5 Calendar:

• Addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers
• Place value
• Multiplication and division
• Area
• Adding mixed fractions
• Multi-step problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Word problems

These calendars can be used in the classroom during your calendar time, as morning work, a fun daily competition, etc. or they can be sent home with parents, making it easy for families to have quick, daily math time at home!

So whether you are wrapping up your school year or not, enjoy this fun, daily math problem with the kids in your life!

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My daughter is 7 and nearing the end of first grade, so the traditional game of hopscotch, while fun, is not really what she would consider a math challenge.

I will soon be introducing her to multiplication, however, and wanted to find some fun ways to review skip counting so that when the time comes I can help her see the connection between multiplication and skip counting. This is a fun and simple multiplication game for 2nd grade (or even 3rd graders).

While there are lots of ways to practice, and obviously we could have done some sort of worksheet, I’m always looking for ways to practice that let my kids get up and move and get outside. And all you need is a handful of sidewalk chalk!

Plus, this was a fun way to introduce my son (age 6) to skip counting as well!

Setting Up Skip Counting Hopscotch: 

I wanted to practice counting by 2’s and 5’s, so we started by drawing two different hopscotch games.

And I explained that it would be more like a maze, so we tried to make it a little more challenging than the traditional hopscotch game.

Then I went through each game board and filled in the numbers. I wanted her to have to choose the correct skip counting numbers, so rather than just having the numbers in order (like in a regular game of hopscotch), I had choices throughout so that she would have to jump on the right squares.

She didn’t really have any trouble finding the right numbers, and recited them as she counted and jumped through the game.

It was a great exercise for my son, though, because as I called out the numbers to introduce him to skip counting, he was also able to work on recognizing numbers from 0-65.

If you have more than one child, you could also draw multiple hopscotch games with the same numbers and let the kids race through to see who can skip count the fastest. Or, they can take turns with a stopwatch.

And of course, if you’re using this as a multiplication game for 2nd grade or 3rd grade, you can work on skip counting by other numbers as well (not just 2 or 5)

Just be sure they know they have to be fast and accurate!

Once the rain washes away our current skip counting hopscotch games, I plan to draw some more to work on skip counting by 3’s and 10’s.

I also think it would be a lot of fun to draw a hundreds chart in the driveway and then practice skip counting by jumping through the hundreds chart!

Want more fun & easy Skip Counting games for kids? Try my huge skip counting collection!

This download includes more than 90 pages of low-prep printable board games, dot-to-dot challenges, puzzles & worksheets. Your kids will love it!

Buy Skip Counting Bundle Here!

Looking for more creative sidewalk chalk math ideas? Try one of these:

• Sidewalk chalk number line race
• Learning about concentric circles and measurement

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I’m so excited to be participating in the “ABC’s and 123’s” series over at NurtureStore! To learn about this game, how to set it up and all the different variations, read the full post here!

What’s your favorite way to get kids moving and learning at the same time?

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Welcome to the weekly collection of math teaching freebies from around the web! I love creating resources to make teaching math easier and more fun, but there are a lot of other great resources out there as well! Check back each week for more math goodness!

Do you have a freebie to share with math educators? Send me a link so I can share it here!

Kindergarten-2nd Grade:

This post at Smiling and Shining in Second Grade has some great ideas for March and several math freebies! Included are money task cards, a quick review and morning work freebie.

And what kids doesn’t love doing math with LEGO? Grab these adorable LEGO addition mats to help kids practice adding and then comparing numbers at the same time!

3rd-5th Grade:

This post at Teaching to Inspire includes tips for using math centers in your classroom, and also includes a great freebie of various math sorts. I think this is a great way for students to practice and review skills!

Want another fun math sort? Try this equal or not equal place value sort.

And grab this HUGE Super Hero multiplication and division practice pack over at Educents! I don’t know how long this will be free, so be sure to grab it before the price changes! (Note: this is an affiliate link).

6th Grade+:

I have enjoyed making simple, printable math calendars recently, and was so excited to find some for advanced math this week! So if you have high schoolers, try these algebra and geometry calendars from Partially Derivative.

And here’s another option from Just Maths: A little bit everyday calendar.

And this post shares a really unique twist on math worksheets for St. Patrick’s Day covering a variety of topics such as integer operations, absolute value, prime and composite numbers and math vocabulary. (Note: you have to give your email to get this freebie).

I hope you found some fun ideas and resources for the month of March! And if you’re looking for more free goodies, check out all the past round-ups here!

Enjoy!

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This calendar is appropriate for grades 1-2, and covers a variety of math skills, including addition and subtraction, greater than or less than and word problems.

What’s unique about this calendar, though, is that the solution is equal to the day of the month. 

So as my kids solve the problem of the day, they will also learn what day it is, and we can have other conversations related to the month of February as well!

This is a great opportunity to spark math conversations! (Find more ideas for Math Talk here).

Obviously, this could be a problem if they already know the date. Then they can “solve” the math problem without actually doing the math.

But I’m not concerned, because I will be doing this with them, and asking questions like, “Can you prove that’s the right answer?” or “Can you show me how you got that?”

And knowing what the solution is supposed to be is a great way for self-checking. For instance, if my daughter knows that the date is February 12 (and the solution should therefore be 12), but gets 14 as the answer, she will know to go back and fix her error.

I also tried to keep this printable simple, so it is just one page, with a box to fill in the solution right on each calendar day.

It’s also black and white, for easy printing, and so kids can color the fun February themed pictures if they want (my kids love to color, so I thought they would like that).

I’m hoping to continue this for each month of 2016, so if you like the idea and would like to see additional grade levels, let me know!

I hope you enjoy this printable math problem of the day calendar!

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Have fun!

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Welcome to the weekly round up of awesome math teaching freebies! Each week I search the web for fun and engaging math teaching lessons and games so that you can teach math in a way that your students will love! Have a freebie to share? Send me a link!

Kindergarten-2nd:

This post at Life Over C’s includes a great list of resources for working on patterns! All kinds of fun themes and ideas!

3rd-5th:

This fun, Valentine-themed math pack has a huge variety of activities that can be used with K-4th grade.

6th-12th:

If you have older kids working on graphing, this cute cheat sheet is really handy! To get a copy, scroll down and look for the box on the right hand side of the page. In the box there’s a document called Graphing Polynomials cheat sheet.

This page at Mortgage Calculator has lots of free lessons on financial literacy. These are based on the national standards for financial literacy and are broken down by grade so there’s something for all ages K-12.

And this page also has free lessons for all ages for helping kids explore engineering concepts. Many are cross-curricular, so you can weave math and engineering topics into history and science. There are lots of really great ideas!

I hope you found some good and useful resources this week! And if you’re looking for more freebies, check out the past roundups!

Enjoy!

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