PreKinders
Snowman Play Dough Mats
Bring the beauty of winter to your classroom with a series of play dough mats. Each page prompts kids to observe the number at the top, and then form the correct number of snowflakes to each winter scene.
Curated OER
Kindergarten Numbers and Number Sense
Twelve math lessons take kindergartners through the process of number sense and counting. The skills range from counting to ten, filling out ten frames, indicating ordinal position of an object, and counting by fives and tens to one...
Texas Woman’s University
Patterns, Patterns Everywhere!
Not only is pattern recognition an essential skill for young children to develop, it's also a lot of fun to teach! Over the course of this lesson, class members participate in shared readings, perform small group activities, and complete...
PreKinders
Feed the Giraffe Mats
Keep your giraffes well fed with a play dough mat. Kids observe the number at the top of each page, and then create leaves out of play dough to feed the giraffe.
Musicwire
Ten Frame Math
If you need a mat for your assignment on ten frames, use this resource to help kids understand the concept. It includes two pages of graphic organizers, including one page with a larger ten frame mat, and one page with two smaller versions.
Have Fun Teaching
Base 10 Blocks
Base ten blocks are a great tool for teaching young mathematicians about a number of math concepts, unfortunately they aren't always available to teachers. That is, until now. This printable resource allows all children the opportunity...
Kiwi Crate
Shopping on a Budget
Print some money with a resource on dollars and cents. Combined with a lesson plan about budgeting, the currency includes $1, $5, and $10 bills, coins of varying value, and a platinum credit card.
Education.com
Back to School Sudoku
Bring your thinking caps to this back-to-school activity! After cutting out the school-themed pictures on the page, paste them into a sudoku grid, making sure that each picture appears only once in each line.
Curated OER
Flight Dreams - Folding into Flight
Combine measurement, following directions, physics, and art with one fun activity. Learners read a set of instruction to create three different kinds of paper airplanes. They measure, fold, and fly the planes, and record data and answer...
Have Fun Teaching
Earth Day Number Practice 0-20
How many trees can your pupils plant? Practice numbers 0-20 with several related activities. For the first, kids match images of trees to numbers. They then match the number symbols to number words, using a word bank. The final activity...
Scholastic
Calligraphy Minibook
Engage young learners in practicing their counting skills while teaching them about the Japanese writing system with this printable book. Using the included key that shows the kanji characters for the numbers 1-10, children count the...
Curated OER
How Many in My Home?
Engage young mathematicians in practicing their counting skills while learning a little about the home environment of your students with this simple worksheet. By asking students to determine the number of windows, doors, rooms, people,...
Curated OER
Toothbrush Measuring
Ever wonder how many marshmallows long your toothbrush is? Well, you're in luck! This hands-on measurement activity requires young mathematicians to determine the length of their toothbrush using Unifix® cubes, buttons, Cheerios, bear...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Math Ten Frame 0-10
Practice counting and adding with a set of math ten frames. The first page features ten frames that represent numbers 1-10, and the second page has ten frames that represent the number 20.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Large Ten Frame 11-20 (With Numbers)
An excellent way to review math ten frames, this series of posters reminds kids how to mark numbers 11-20. Each pages features a ten frame with the first ten spots filled out to indicate 10, then additional frames to indicate how many...
Curated OER
Rainbow Color Number Line 0 -20
Brighten up your study of numbers with a colorful number line. Cut out and paste together the strips to make the line go from zero to twenty in all the colors of the rainbow.
Curated OER
Black & White Basic Number Line 0 -20
Practice numbers zero through twenty with a foldable number line. You or your pupils cut out each strip, glue them together, and fold on the dotted lines to create an accordion-style number line.
Curated OER
Crocodile Number Line 1- 10
Allow this toothy, smiling crocodile to teach your youngsters their numbers. Simply cut out each strip, glue them together in a line, and fold along the dotted lines to create a fun accordion-style number line. Kids will love the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Sort and Count II
Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this hands-on sorting activity. Given a bag of objects, students work independently sorting the items based on their physical attributes, counting to determine the size of each group....
Illustrative Mathematics
Sort and Count
Young mathematicians are on their feet and moving around in this primary grade sorting activity. After giving each child an object or picture card, they then sort themselves into groups, counting to see which has the most or least...
Illustrative Mathematics
Size Shuffle
In the eyes of children the world is a simple place, objects are either big or small. This simple activity aims to expand the comparison language of young mathematicians as they use the words taller and shorter to compare their height...
Curated OER
How Heavy
Break out the balances for this primary grade instructional activity on weight measurement. Using common elementary school manipulatives like unifix or snap cubes, young mathematicians determine the weight of four different classroom...
Illustrative Mathematics
Christina's Candies
Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Which Weighs More? Which Weighs Less?
Expand the the comparative language of young mathematicians with a hand-on weight measurement activity. Working independently or in pairs, children compare the weight of large wooden blocks to various other classroom objects, recording...