Yesterday I posted Running A Summer STEM Camp. This is Part 2 of that post and covers days 2-4 of camp! We did a “no tech” STEM camp meaning it was old fashioned hands on projects and challenges, no robots ...
This week I had the pleasure of running a summer STEM camp! I wanted to share some of the things we did and that I learned in order to benefit anyone planning their own camp or wanting to do this ...
What is the key to reducing math test anxiety? At Stress Free Math For Kids, our mission is to eliminate math anxiety in kids, parents, teachers, and tutors. However, we know that state tests can bring out the worst of ...
Want to celebrate February 29 with some Leap Day or Leap Year Math? I’ve got you covered with the best FREE resources from all over the Internet. Thanks to Kumon for this graphic on the mathematical way to determine a ...
Are you looking for free New Years Math Activities to come back from holiday break and blast off the new school semester? I’ve got you covered with my favorites from all over the Internet. As usual, I don’t just share ...
Looking for some free Thanksgiving math resources that practice solid computational and thinking skills in a fun and engaging way? Here are the ones I will be using. I have some for every grade pre K- 8th! Greg Tang Thanksgiving ...
Are you a teacher looking for a one page printable list of free summer math activities to send home with your students? A parent looking for easy ways to keep your child learning this summer? Maybe you are both! I ...
Let’s learn about mathematicians in Women’s History Month this March! Math and science have historically been male dominated fields. According to The STEM Gap, “Women make up only 28% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and men vastly ...
Are you looking for FREE, fun and engaging themed math for Groundhog Day? Here are a few ideas. For All Ages -Go outside to measure shadows using sidewalk chalk and measuring tape. See instructions from Education World here (this lesson ...
It’s October and that means it’s Spooky Math Time! Every October 1 I start putting together ways to use my students’ excitement about “Spooky Season” to develop their math skills. When I used to be director of a math learning ...
During the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are many free Christmas math activities that will capture your children’s attention! I have listed my favorite Christmas themed activities for all grade levels pre K- elementary. Many are appropriate for multi ...
If you are looking for free Halloween math activities for elementary school students , here are the best I can find! (There are also a few for preschool and middle school.) Please also see my other post specifically for Pumpkin ...
Free summer math camps pdf available! I just had a request from a member for suggestions for running summer math camp, so I put together a guide to what has worked for me in the past. It includes ideas for ...
What better day for fun Star Wars themed math than May the Fourth? Use these ideas to incorporate Star Wars into your elementary and middle school instruction. Free Printable Math Puzzles Download free printable Star Wars themed math puzzles at ...
Need activities for teaching math on special days? From holidays to fun themes, we’ve got you covered! Super Bowl Math President’s Day Valentine’s Day Dr. Seuss Week Pi Day March Madness St. Patrick’s Day Easter Using Baseball to Teach Math ...
Are you looking for free resources and ideas to incorporate the Super Bowl into your math instruction? Here are some of the best I’ve found. Updated 1/24/24 to fix links! Measurement and Graphing Activities Use geometry and spatial skills to fold ...
There are so many engaging Thanksgiving STEM projects to use with your students or children, building their math, logical thinking, collaborative and creative skills while having a lot of hands on fun! Here are a few of my favorites. Also ...
Photo by Sebastien Lapointe on Unsplash October is the perfect time to create some excitement by incorporating pumpkins into your math instruction. You’d be surprised by how many concepts you can practice using Pumpkin Math! I have used these ideas ...
If you are a tutor, intervention teacher, or parent looking for a way to individually assess an individual child’s math skills, here are some free elementary math placement tests you can use. Before I go into the lists, I need ...
As the school year comes to an end, many teachers and tutors are looking for fun and engaging, but still educational, projects that reinforce math skills. Here are some open ended creative math project options for the end of the ...
No matter what age or grade you teach there are meaningful and engaging hands on ways to incorporate Easter fun into your math instruction! Jellybean Math Use jellybeans to sort and graph, make patterns or explore beginning probability. For preK ...
Earth Day occurs every year on April 22. There are many engaging and educational ways to incorporate this theme into your math instruction no matter what grade you teach. All listed activities are FREE. Earth Day Math Activities for Elementary ...
Have some St Patricks Day themed fun in your math class while still having high level learning with the following activities. I have read through every idea here and only linked activities that are free and high quality. All of ...
March 14 is Pi Day and a classic day for celebrating math, with great pi day activities available even for elementary school. The first Pi Day was celebrated in 1988 in San Francisco, California in order to draw attention to ...
Here are some fun and engaging ways to incorporate March Madness into your math instruction. Class Tournament I have seen two ways to do this. In one, students compete individually against a new partner every day or two and advance ...
No matter what grade you teach or what math concept you are working on, you can incorporate the Dr. Seuss theme into your math instruction to celebrate his birthday and Read Across America week! Here are some ideas specific to ...
Presidents’ Day is the perfect day for math activities including money math, graphing, and more. See my post Math Picture Books About Money for book ideas! Money Math For Primary Grades Coin Sort– sort pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and practice identifying ...
In most states a school year is 180 days long, meaning that the 90th school day is halfway day! I have never been at a school that celebrated that but ran across some mentions of it while researching 100th day ...
(For Older Kids Too) Are you ready to celebrate the 100th Day of School but want some creative hands on activities that will build your kids’ mathematical thinking? Do you teach older kids that still want to celebrate and need ...
It is really fun to incorporate holidays into your math instruction, and I am always looking for ways to do that creatively and with real world applications; not just putting holiday graphics on a worksheet or a reference to the ...