Summer Fun and Games
Summer Calendars with Science and Math Activities Everyday
Math Fun and Games
Thinking Blocks
(Modeling and Solving Math Word Problems)
Multi-Subject Flash Cards App
Description
SAS® Flash Cards gives you the ability to easily create, learn, and share flash cards for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. With SAS® Flash Cards, you can download and play flash card decks in numerous subjects, create new flash card decks in a variety of question formats, and share your flash card decks with others.
Math Tappers Number Line
Description
MathTappers: Numberline is a learning game that challenges players to find the locations of numbers on a numberline. This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers.
Number Bond Blasters
Description
Number Bond Blasters allows students in kindergarten through fifth grade to practice math facts with number bonds. This game is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and will have students fluently adding and subtracting or multiplying and dividing at their level.
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Bedtime Math
A different math problem every night!
Concept Learning Bricks are foundational vocabulary terms and concepts, designed for multi-sensory learners, that students need to master before they can apply the actual concepts to other areas. Each Concept Learning Brick is organized with a question, answer, physical gesture movement, concept examples, and picture to represent the academic term. The image on the card, associated memory gesture, and vocabulary definition allow students to see, hear, say, and do so much more with these crucial terms in a way that is fun and engaging. Over 220 concepts are available!
Acing Math (One Deck At A Time!)
Acing Math (One Deck At A Time!) is a collection of math games ranging from Kindergarten to the upper elementary grades, using only an ordinary deck of playing cards. There are games covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, decimals, patterns, positive and negative integers, as well as many others. Over 60 different games with directions and illustrations!
MATH AND FIELD
Math and Field puts a new twist on how to review basic number facts. Instead of the same drill and kill format, Math and Field turns review into a fun and engaging game. There are events for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and a relay race for all four. Be sure to download both the instructions and gameboards!
Attribute Grab Bag builds on children’s informal knowledge by giving them appropriate vocabulary and opportunities to practice identifying geometric shapes. Check out this fun way to learn some shapes!
Product Tac Toe is a fun game that allows students to practice multiplication skills as well as problem solving strategies.
MULTIPLE WAYS MULTIPLICATION
Multiple Ways Multiplication (MWM) is set up for students to build on their multiplication fluency with a variety of different activities. MWM is equipped with twelve activities and one timed assessment tool to be used at the end of your weekly session. The intent is for MWM to be used daily, only a few minutes a day to give your students time to work with multiplication in different ways.
Place Value Piles
The Positive Engagement Project created Place Value Piles to give students a hands-on visual that helps them comprehend both expanded form and expanded form with exponents. Before students can really connect expanded form, it is important that they have a genuine understanding of place value. Place Value Piles is intended to do both: teach place value and expanded form!
PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES SHUFFLE
The idea of Problem Solving Strategy Shuffle is to create opportunities for our students to think about math differently. We want our students to recognize that there is more than one way to solve a problem. TWELVE different problem solving strategies are at your disposal in this free download. You will love this fun way to differentiate math instruction!
EVEN AND ODD LINES
Even & Odd Lines is a great way to reinforce the concept of even and odd numbers in a fun and engaging way for our primary aged students. This activity is complete with two different game boards to differentiate the experiences for your students.
Coordinate Fours is a game designed to reinforce basic coordinate point skills in a fun way. With two different game formats to choose from (single quadrant and all four quadrants), it's a game that can be played across a wide range of grades and ages.
Prime & Composite Lines is a great way to reinforce the concept of prime and composite numbers in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
TRANSPARENCY CHECK UPS
The Positive Engagement Project created a series of whiteboard activities with ourTransparency Check Ups. We still use the dry erase markers and erasers (or tissue), but the whiteboards are replaced with clear sheet protectors. In this packet you will find fun ways to check your child’s understanding of concepts like time, money, place value, number lines, fractions, and more.
SUDOKU: How To Play
A classic Sudoku puzzle is made up of a 9-by-9 grid with nine 3-by-3 sub-grids called boxes.
There are 9 rows, 9 columns and 9 boxes in every puzzle.
The object of the game is to fill all squares in the grid with the correct number. The rules are:
Every row, column and box must contain all the digits 1 to 9.
Each number can only appear once in every row, column or box.
Every puzzle has only one correct solution!
Do not guess! Use logic and reasoning to figure out which number goes into which box.
Do not write a number in the box unless you are 100% certain that it goes there.
1. Play Cards - Traditional card games are full of logic and arithmetic.
2. Visit a Museum - Look up the summer programs for your local science museums, or just browse around and highlight the different ways math is involved in the various sciences.
3. Cook - Following recipes, cutting it in half for fewer servings, or tripling it for a large gathering, teaches very practical skills.
4. Chart Your Time - Have your children keep a chart indicating how much time they spend reading, watching television, doing chores and playing. Children can determine what fraction of the day that they spend on each activity.
5. Weather Watch - Set up a rain gauge to measure the amount of rain over the course of a month or the whole summer. You can also track the daily temperatures and humidity and plot it on a chart.
6. Garden - The children can help to determine the area of the garden and have them calculate the amount of space taken up by the tomatoes versus cucumbers.
7. Plan a Trip - Have the kids map out your trip. They can calculate distance and estimate time and fuel mileage. The entire family can help check the accuracy of their estimates along the way.