Math Stations: Organizing Your Classroom for Active Learning
As elementary math teachers, one of our primary goals is to create a classroom environment where students are actively engaged in learning and exploring mathematical concepts. One of the best ways to achieve this is by setting up math stations—a dynamic, hands-on approach that allows students to rotate between different …
Halloween Games-Memory Match-Arrays
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, and I love to use all kinds of Halloween-themed math games, puzzles, and other practice activities in the classroom. Today I would like to share some more games and activities ideas with a Halloween theme to practice arrays and multiplication …
Divisibility Rules – Games
Introducing divisibility rules early on equips children with problem-solving strategies that improve computational fluency and number sense. Simplifying Calculations: Divisibility rules make it easier to determine if one number can be divided by another without doing a long division. For example, knowing a number is divisible by 2 if it’s …
Solving Linear Equations Practice Games
As an extension to our linear equations unit, I have designed a few games to encourage students to do some extra practice. The games are great for practice, review, and self-correction, however, they don’t teach how to solve linear equations. Make sure that your students understand linear equations and the …
Math talks, Number talks, meaningful math discussions
Math talks are short activities (around 10-15 minutes) designed to provide opportunities for the students to make connections in mathematics and explain their thinking to their peers. There are questions/problems/pictures that encourage students to think of different strategies and realize that there is no one way to solve a problem. …
Coordinate plane Games
A coordinate plane is a two-dimensional plane formed by the intersection of two number lines. One of these number lines is a horizontal number line called the x-axis and the other number line is a vertical number line called the y-axis. A coordinate plane is a tool used for graphing …
Comparing Fractions Game-Multiplayer
A game for comparing fractions was missing from our collection so here it is. This is a simple racing game that requires students to compare fractions and recognize equivalent ones. The students can use the fraction bars to compare the fractions (included) or other strategies such as Comparing both to …
Simplifying Fractions – Equivalent Fractions Game
Today I would like to share with you a little game to practice simplifying fractions and finding equivalent ones. Once the students understand the concept with visual models they can use the algorithm to simplify and find equivalent using division or multiplication. To be successful in simplifying fractions the students …
Long Division Games (print and Digital)
Since the multi-digit addition and subtraction and Multi-Digit Multiplication games were a great success in my classroom and from what I heard in yours as well, I have decided to create a few for long division as well. The idea of these games is to motivate the students to practice …