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Three Easy Kids Activities for Fun Outdoor Math
Help make math learning fun and easy this summer with these three outdoor activities you can do with just a few household items — and some mud, of course.
6 At-Home Olympic Math Activities for Preschoolers
Here are some free, easy-to-set-up challenges to get your family started on your own at-home Olympics.
Make Spring-Cleaning into a Math Game
As you tackle spring-cleaning, try sharing age-appropriate tasks. Watch as kids pride themselves in their work and celebrate accomplishments when each job is crossed off the list.
How to Make Math Animal Crafts With Paper Plates
Use paper plates to make a spider, pig, and chick. Then talk about and compare the number of legs each animal has.
Abracadabra! Find the Magic of Math with These Simple Tricks
Have fun with math with these magic tricks that explore addition, subtracting, counting, proportions, and more.
Build Newspaper Structures to Develop Spatial Sense
Explore math and spatial sense by using vocabulary such as left, right, above, below, next to, and more while you build a structure from rolled and folded newspaper.
Fun Bottle Flipping Experiment
Practice math skills such as tallying and data analysis with this fun and easy water bottle flipping challenge.
Use a Deck of Cards to Practice Counting and Sorting
Try these fun card activities to help your child practice math skills such as counting, sorting, colors, and numbers.
Relay Race Math Challenge
Three ... two ... one ... GO! Can you race like an Olympian? Try out this simple family relay race activity, which will get your child moving, as well as collecting, graphing and comparing data.
5 Cozy Ways to Add Math to Kids' Bedtime Routines
From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try these five cozy ways to incorporate math into your nightly routine.
How to Make a Sorting Spinner Using a Clothespin
Make a sorting spinner to help children practice identifying and sorting objects by their characteristics or attributes — such as color, size, type, and shape.
5 Fun and Easy Math Activities With Craft Pipe Cleaners
Try these five simple pipe cleaner activities to practice classification, shape identification, counting, patterns, and spatial sense.
