Category Archives: Activities
Master Addition Facts with Free Music & Activities
Mastering addition facts is a critical part of becoming a confident math student. Songs, music, and rhyme are all helpful tools to aid students in memorizing and reciting their math facts. Maybe you remember Three Is A Magic Number, My Hero, Zero, and other Schoolhouse Rock hits fondly, and can still sing them word for…
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Should Your Preschooler Use Math-U-See Blocks?
You can prepare your preschooler for Math-U-See by providing her with purposeful activity and play in advance. Perhaps it’s happened in your house. It’s time for Math-U-See, and your older children are getting out their workbooks and manipulatives. In the meantime, your preschooler, drawn to the colorful blocks, asks, “Can I use the blocks, too?”…
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Make Math Fun with a Math Selfie
A math selfie can help improve problem solving skills, increase self-confidence, and showcase student work while learning math. Whether showing a quizzical look or a wide-eyed, cheerful smile, selfies are a mainstay among today’s youth. Selfies (short for self-portraits), serve as a way for pre-teens and teens to express their mood and share important experiences.…
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Outdoor Summer Math Games & Apps
Summer offers parents and preschoolers time to enjoy the outdoors while still “stretching the brain.” The outdoor environment provides endless rich opportunities to build upon your child’s mathematical skills. Together, you can explore numbers, shapes, measurements, and more by trying some of these fun and easy guided activities or by simply asking the right questions…
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10 Math Games for Early Learners
Young children love to ask questions and play games that involve many aspects of mathematics. Early learners need math experiences that incorporate their senses, that require them to experiment and make observations, and that allow them time to investigate a topic further. As your child’s first teacher, you can start introducing basic math concepts such…
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Make Memorizing Math Facts Fun With These 10 Activities
Add some of these idea to your math repertoire to make the task of learning math facts a fun and less stressful activity. There is no discounting the importance of your child memorizing basic math facts. It can be discouraging when you know he understands the math concept for the operation but still struggles to…
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Introduce Children to Numbers Easily with These 8 Math Activities
Numbers and counting are naturally a part of your child’s day. From counting his toes to saying, “one, two, three, go!” while playing in the yard, he is already observing and gathering information about numbers. Math is another avenue for your preschooler to understand and make sense of his world. Learning opportunities that incorporate play…
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3 Problem-Solving Math Activities for Kids
A problem is simply a “problem” because there is no immediate, known solution. Problem solving activities in mathematics extend well beyond traditional word problems. You can provide your student with activities that promote application of math skills while “busting boredom” at the same time! Puzzles and riddles, patterns, and logic problems can all be valuable…
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Hands-on Math Activities
When it comes to learning math, you know that building a good foundation is essential. Your goal is to produce confident problem solvers who enjoy the study of math. You want your student to learn and master the underlying concepts of math that are critical to successful problem solving. Once mastery is demonstrated, how can…
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