Elementary Math Activities and Lessons

Calendar (Measurement)

Our calendar math resources include classroom activity ideas, lesson plans, links to math games and free calendar worksheets and printables:

• Calendar vocabulary worksheets
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce learning calendar time
• Know the days of the week and months of the year - days of the week worksheets and months of the year worksheets
• Link to interactive game - calendar activity
• Nursery rhymes using days of the week
• Nursery rhymes using months of the year
• Printable calendars
• Toys that teach days of the week and months of the year
• Understand time orientation: today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon

Classifying and Patterns

Our classifying and patterns math resources include classifying and pattern activity ideas, lesson plans, links to math games and free pattern worksheets and printables:

• Sort and classify objects by size, shape, color or amount
• Define a set
• In a given set, indicate which item doesn't belong
• Recognize patterns and predict extensions

Clocks and Telling Time Activities

Our telling time math resources include clock activity ideas, lesson plans, links to clock games and free clock worksheets and telling time printables:

• Clock flash cards for the classroom - read a clock face to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, minute
• Clock vocabulary worksheets
• Links to interactive games - analog clock game, digital clock game, world clock - time conversions
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce learning time
• Sequencing by time: before and after; first, next, last
• Toys that teach time
• Videos that teach time

Fractions

• Adding and subtracting fractions
• Comparing fractions worksheets
• Fraction worksheets (recognize fractions as part of a whole) 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, etc
• Fractions and decimals
• Integrating literature - books that reinforce teaching fractions
• Recognizing fractions that are equal to 1
• Simplifying fractions worksheets
• Toys that teach fractions
• Videos that teach fractions

Geometry Activities (Shapes)

• Angles
• Flat and solid shapes
• Identify left and right
• Identify top, bottom, middle
• Identify and sort basic plane figures: square, rectangle, triangle and circle
• Identify shapes in nature and surroundings
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce learning shapes and geometry
• Links to shape games - Create Your Own Chinese Tangrams, Recreate Tangrams, Geometric Shapes, Dots and Squares and Shape Words Wordsearch
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce geometric concepts
• Polygons
• Shape worksheets for teachers
• Toys that teach shapes
• Relative position vocabulary worksheet - closed, open, on, under, over, in front, in back (behind), inside, outside, above, below, etc
  

Measurement

• Circles
• Compare weights of objects using a balance scale
• Compare U.S. and metric measurements
• Identify familiar measuring tools such as a ruler, scale, thermometer
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce learning measurement
• Link to measurement games
• Measure lines in inches, feet and centimeters
• Measuring rectangles
• Measurement vocabulary worksheets
• Measurement abbreviations
• Metric weights and measures
• Perimeter and area
• Practice using standard and non-standard units of measurement to compare objects
• Printable rulers
• Toys that teach measurement concepts
• Understand equivalent measurements ie. 1 foot = 12 inches
• U.S. weights and measures
• Vocabulary worksheets

Money Activities

• Adding money worksheets
• Coin recognition activities - identify pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills
• Identify the dollar sign ($) and cents sign (¢)
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce learning coins and money
• Money shopping
• Show how different combinations of coins equal the same amounts of money
• State quarters - coin observation sheets
• State quarters - links to scrambler puzzles
• Subtracting amounts of money
• Toys that teach about money and coins
• Write money amounts using the cents sign (¢)
• Write dollar amounts using the dollar sign ($)
• Write dollar and cent amounts using number words

Numbers and Number Sense

• Compare quantities using >, < and =
• Counting Games - links to count by ones, count by twos, count by threes, count by fives, count by tens, count backwards from 20, odd numbers, even numbers
• Count backwards from 10
• Counting by 2's
• Counting by 5's
• Counting by 10's
• Counting to 10
• Counting to 100
• Counting to 1000
• Even numbers number chart
• Even numbers worksheets
• Greater than - less than a number worksheets
• Identify dozen, half-dozen, pairs
• Identify pairs
• Integrating literature - books that reinforce learning numbers and number sense
• Interpret bar graphs
• Interpret pictorial graphs
• Number charts (Blank 100 number chart, interactive 100 number chart [0-99], interactive 100 number chart [1-100]
• Number recognition
• Number words worksheets
• Number writing
• Odd numbers number chart
• One to one correspondence for numbers 1 through 12 (number flash cards) for the classroom
• Ordinial numbers worksheets
• Place value: hundreds worksheets
• Place value: thousands worksheets
• Recognize and write numbers 0-10
• Recognize and write numbers 0-100
• Recognize place value: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands
• Recognize Roman numerals
• Round to the nearest 10
• Toys that teach numbers and number sense
• Understand the concepts of "most' and "least" by comparing sets
• Use tallies

Operations and Computations - Addition

• Add and subtract using concrete objects
• Adding a number to itself (doubling a number)
• Addition flash cards for the classroom
• Addition worksheets - vocabulary activities and addition practice
• Addition games - links to an interactive flash card game, practice sums game, yahtzee math game
• Integrating literature - books that reinforce learning addition
• Solve 2 digit addition problems with and without grouping
• Three digit addition and subtraction worksheets
• Toys that teach addition
• Two digit addition and subtraction worksheets
• Understand that addition problems can be written horizonally or vertically
• Write an addition equation to solve a basic word problem

Operations and Computations - Division

• Division worksheets - vocablulary activities and division practice
• Division flash cards for the classroom
• Integrating literature - books that reinforce learning division
• Toys that teach division
• Two digit addition and subtraction worksheets
• Write a division equation to solve a basic word problem

Operations and Computations - Multiplication

• Integrating literature - books that reinforce learning multiplication
• Multiplication flash cards for the classroom
• Multiplication worksheets - vocablulary activities multiplication practice
• Toys that teach multiplication
• Two digit multiplication worksheets
• Understand that multiplication problems can be written horizonally or vertically
• Write a multiplication equation to solve a basic word problem

Operations and Computations Subtraction

• Integrating literature - books that reinforce learning subtraction
• Subtraction flash cards for the classroom
• Subtraction worksheets - vocablulary activities and division practice
• Toys that teach subtraction
• Two digit subtraction worksheets
• Understand that subtraction problems can be written horizonally or vertically
• Write a subtraction equation to solve a basic word problem

Patterns

• Creating patterns lessons
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce patterns
• Recognizing patterns worksheets

Problem Solving and Equations

• Addition and subtraction mats (practice creating equations using concrete objects)
• Integrating literature - children's books that reinforce problem solving and equations
• Practice writing equations
• Word problem worksheets

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