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Math activities for kids (including math printables)

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One of my goals in educating my children is to help them have a better relationship with math than I had when I was in school. While I did fine in my math classes, I always found the subject to be a bit dry. I also had a difficult time understanding how some of my high school and college math classes were applicable in the real world.

I contrast to my own math education, I hope to inspire my children’s love of numbers and math from an early age. I want them to see math as useful, relevant, and engaging. I want them to think of themselves as “math people.” And I want them to see the beauty in math (something that I admittedly am having to educate myself about as my own education did not inspire me to think that way about math).

In order to achieve these goals, I have made an effort to engage my kids in some fun and creative math activities. On this page I’m sharing lots of fun math activities for kids. These activities include pre-math skills like sorting. (Shape recognition is also a basic math skill, but I have a separate page for all of my activities dedicated to teaching shapes to kids.) I have also included activities on number recognition, patterning, and graphing.

Take some time to look at some of the ideas below and you are bound to find a few math activities that your kids would enjoy!

Math activities and printables for kids. There are so many awesome resources for doing hands-on math ideas with kids on this page! Great ideas for teaching numbers, graphing, measurement, patterning, etc. || Gift of Curiosity

Below are links to the math activities for kids and math printables for kids that have been featured at Gift of Curiosity. Click an image to be taken directly to the post related to each activity.

Counting and number learning activities

  • Favorite tools for teaching numbers
  • Numbers in the salt box
  • Number detectives
  • Put the numbers on the clothesline
  • Ice cream math game
  • Farm grid games
  • St Patricks Day shamrock math
  • Paper chain countdown
  • Egg carton number matching
  • Insects Grid Games
  • Road Numbers
  • Number hop
  • Counting in circles

Math activities

  • Gifts for developing math concepts
  • Build a rainbow measurement activity
  • Adding with chain links
  • Matching and ordering by size
  • Venn diagram sorting practice
  • Pom pom graphing
  • Teaching combinations of 10
  • Advanced patterns worksheets
  • Advanced pattern recognition
  • Pretend play math practice
  • Estimating an apple's circumference
  • Measuring silkworms
  • Basic sorting skills
  • 7 patterning activities
  • Comparing Arctic animal sizes
  • Penguin math activities
  • Bead stringing control cards
  • Basic addition with manipulatives
  • Graphing practice
  • Patterning practice
  • Easter egg balance scale activity
  • Introduction to probability
  • Apple Tree Math
  • What weighs more than an apple?
  • Halloween math - combos of 5 and 10
  • Measuring pumpkin circumference
  • Corn kernel math practice
  • Christmas tree ribbon craft
  • Math practice with numbered dice
  • Pattern block beehive
  • Halloween roll and cover math game
  • Basic Symmetry Activity Pack
  • Advanced symmetry activities
 

Math printables

Below are printables that are exclusively focused on math skills. However, many of my thematic printables include theme-based math activities as well. You can find a complete list of printables available on my educational printables page.

  • Road Numbers
  • Build a rainbow measurement activity
  • Advanced patterns worksheets
  • Put the numbers on the clothesline
  • Roll a house dice game
  • Ice cream math game
  • Matching and ordering by size
  • Graphing practice
  • Ice cream dice game
  • Insects Grid Games
  • Farm grid games
  • Apple counting book
  • St Patricks Day shamrock math
  • Christmas grid games
  • Basic Symmetry Activity Pack
  • Insects Math Roll and Cover
  • Valentine Roll and Cover
  • Easter Roll and Cover
  • 4th of July Roll and Cover
  • Halloween roll and cover math game
  • Arctic Animals Preschool Math Pack
  • Christmas Preschool Math Pack
  • Winter Preschool Math Pack
  • Valentine's Day Measurement Activity
  • Measurement Activities
  • Space Measurement Activity
  • St. Patricks Day Grid Games
  • St. Patricks Day Preschool Math Pack
  • Easter Measurement Activity
  • Easter Preschool Math Pack
  • Ocean Animals Roll and Cover Math
  • Summer Preschool Math Pack
  • Apple Preschool Math Pack
  • Apples Measurement Activity
  • Fall Preschool Math Pack
  • Halloween Preschool Math Pack
  • Thanksgiving Preschool Math Pack
  • Transportation Toys Measurement Activity
  • DIY Soma Cube
  • Zoo Animals Preschool Math Pack
  • Penguins Measurement Activity
  • Valentine Preschool Math Pack

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Comments

  1. Tran Thi Le Quyen says

    January 7, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Thank you very much for your share, they are really useful for me and my child.

    Reply
  2. Malu Scuiziani says

    October 1, 2015 at 6:29 am

    Obrigada pela sua generosidade em compartilhar suas ideias.

    Reply
  3. MIROSLAVA says

    September 17, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Gracias por compartir , me serán de gran utilidad para utilizar con mis alumnos y compañeros.

    Reply

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