Shape Books, Shape Book, Free Shape Books, Printable Shape Books, Shape Book Patterns, Shape Books for Kids
Shape identification is probably the first piece of geometry that students are asked to learn. It requires classification and visual identification skills. We’ve assembled some books to help out your young ones. Geometry is the most fun part of math, so make it fun for them!
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Memory Games, Memory Game, Free Memory Games, Printable Memory Games, Memory Games for Kids, Memory Games Cards, Download Memory Games, Matching Memory Games, Memory Games Free Online, Memory Games for Children
Mix and Math and test your memory! It’s like the shell game but without gambling… because that’s frowned upon in school. But seriously, matching and memory games are great for developing the mind. We all used to play memory games and do mazes as kids. Nowadays kids push their thumbs around a game controller and have a hard time doing much else. Help them flex their mental muscles!
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Mazes, Free Mazes, Maze, Printable Mazes, Free Maze, Free Printable Maze, Mazes for Kids
Mazes are great fun. They help with problem solving, spatial relationships, and a whole bunch of other high-level thinking skills. I always like letting my students do them as morning fun work, along with puzzles. It gets them in the mood for doing math. Want to try?
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Math Games, Free Math Games, Free Online Math Games, Printable Math Games, Free Math Games for Kids, Fun Math Games, Elementary Math Games
Need MORE math? You can never have enough. I know several teachers with three or more standing files of centers and math activities, plus more home in their garages. It’s an obsession, this learning and teaching stuff. Why not stock up with some of our free activities?
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Math Activities, Free Math Activities, Free Online Math Activities, Printable Math Activities, Free Math Activities for Kids, Fun Math Activities, Elementary Math Activities
Mazes and math activities… as always, for free. Notice a pattern here? We offer you everything we have for free, but don’t mind making it easier on you if you want to buy a cd collection or a dvd. Anyway, we’ve been working on some math activities to share with you.
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Counting Down From Twenty Song, Counting Down Song, Counting Song, Counting Down From Ten Song, Count Down, Count Down Song
Just when you thought it was safe to start reading this blog again, I go and make ANOTHER math song post. I won’t write a rhyme though. It seems straightforward and simple, but counting backward is a difficult skill for most kids. It’s nearly as hard as saying your alphabet backwards, which many adults struggle with. This song from have fun teaching’s musical genius puts that skill into a couple minute routine to practice. Give it a try!
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Counting Down From Twenty Song
Counting By Sixes Song, Counting By Six Song, Count By Sixes Song, Count By Six Song, Counting By 6 Song, Counting By 6s Song, Counting By 6’s Song
And so, we’re halfway done. We’ll be going all the way up to 12’s with this, so enjoy the halfway point. In the meantime, head over to check out more free songs, and they’re not just math songs, either, on have fun teaching.
Six cracks in mom’s favorite dish.
Six whiskers on mom’s ugly pet rat.
Six diamonds in mom’s favorite barrette.
Six seats around mom’s dinner table.
Six horses in mom’s giant stable.
Six lines in this silly rhyme.
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Counting By Fours Song, Counting By Four Song, Count By Fours Song, Count By Four Song, Counting By 4 Song, Counting By 4s Song, Counting By 4’s Song
I will continue to punish your eyes and lyrical senses with another poor rhyme about the number four. Hopefully you’ll be inspired to run away from this blog and right over to the downloads section of have fun teaching!
Four times, I shut the door.
Four times, teddy dog opened it once more.
Four times, I yelled at the beast.
Four times, his tail slapped happily at my feet!
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Counting By Ones Song, Counting By One Song, Count By Ones Song, Count By One Song, Counting By 1 Song, Counting By 1s Song, Counting By 1’s Song
In honor of the start of a series of posts on numbers, I will make a silly rhyme about the number one. Look for more poor attempts at rhyming to come, one for each number from 1 to 12.
There once was one honey bun,
Lacking in glaze, for it had none.
But that was enough for one old nun,
Who had given up on sugar for a season.
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Counting Songs, Counting Song, Skip Counting Songs, Math Counting Songs, Counting Numbers Songs
Counting is a huge skill in the first few years of school. What many don’t understand is that the patterns in skip counting also helps in multiplication. Practice skip counting with have fun teaching’s skip-counting songs. They have everything from 1’s to 12’s, as well as other math songs. One of the easiest ways to teach this is to have students loud and silent clap numbers.
For example, when counting by 3’s, soft-clap 1, 2, loud clap 3, soft-clap 4, 5, loud clap 6… and so on.
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