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60 Elementary Hands-On Math Teaching Ideas
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Hands-on learning is incredibly important for kids. There are a million reasons why! Today I am highlighting more than 60 elementary hands-on math teaching ideas that I have featured over the years on my site. This list will continues to grow, too! I love teaching math in creative ways!
Check out my post with The BEST Hands-on Math Supplies that we love. Then browse through my list below highlighting all of the fun ways you can teach math to elementary-aged kids.
If You want even more ideas, be sure to check out my new book Math Art & Drawing Games for Kids!
Hands-On Math: Fractions & Decimals
There are loads of fun ways to teach fractions here on my site. There are just so many cool ways to teach them. We are only just getting into decimals around here, so watch for more on that, too!
1. Fraction Trees
2. Pi Puzzle
3. Snowman Fractions
4. Roll a Whole Fraction Game
5. Fraction Flowers
6. Hershey Fractions
7. Fractions With Flags
$ Skittles Math
8. Skittles Math
9. Fraction Decimal Percentage Puzzles
10. Fraction Cookies
11. Each Orange Had 8 Slices
12. Pizza Fractions
Hands-On Math: Shapes & Geometry
Geometry is a wonderful thing to start teaching at an early age. The younger kids understand these concepts, the easier upper level math will be for them.
13. 3-D Paper Shapes
14. Area & Perimeter City
Stellated Dodecahedron Template
15. Make a Stellated Dodecahedron
16. Volume of 3-D Shapes
17. Pentominoes
18. Licorice Shapes & Angles
19.
STEM Construction Toys: Zome Tools
20. Marshmallow & Toothpick Geometry
21. Perler Bead Tangrams
22. Rainbow Icosahedron Ball
23. Heart Shaped Math Puzzle from Hand Made Kids Art
24. How to Make a Circle Geoboard
25. Gingerbread House Geometry
26. Geometric Shapes Activity from Little Bins for Little Hands
Hands-On Math: Counting, Addition & Subtraction
This is where math begins. Let your kids know how much fun math really can be with these creative teaching ideas for addition, subtraction and counting.
27. Lock & Key Addition Puzzles
28. Pascal’s Triangle
29. Hundred Chart Puzzle
30. Hundred Chart Learning Ideas
31. Place Value Cards
32. Place Value Flip Chart
33. Teaching Greater Than & Less Than from Only Passionate Curiosity
34. Leap Frog Math
35. Math Checkers
36.
Make Ten Math Game
37. Popsicle Stick Math
38. Roll the Digits Math Game
39. Eye Dropper Dot Counting
40. Build a House Math Bingo
$ Roll a Beetle Dice Game
41. Roll a Beetle Math Game
42. Kinetic Sand Math from Left Brain Craft Brain
43. Safe Cracker Math Game
44. Dice Games for Early Math: from Danya Banya
45. Math Grid Game
46. Building Lego Numbers from Little Bins for Little hands
47. Human Board Game from True Aim Education
Hands On Math: Multiplication & Division
Just when math starts getting a little harder is when kids start to tune out. Keep it interesting with creative multiplication and division teaching ideas.
48. Multiplication Grid Game
49. Target Number Card Game
50. Count the Dots Multiplication Game
51. Math Wheels
52. Division With Money Puzzles
53.
Fun Ways to Teach Division to Kids
54. Mondrian Style Fibonacci Art
55. Math Fact Families
56. Multiplication Houses
57. Doubles Math Puzzles
$ Number Multiples: Multiplication Helpers
58. Skip Counting Multiplication Helpers
59. Spill The Beans Game
60. One Grain of Rice Math Lesson
Hands On Math: Money & Time
These essential math skills can seem dry for kids, but here are a couple of great ways to have fun teaching and learning them!
$ The Money Game
61. The Money Game
62. Chalkboard Clock
63. Play Store
64. Shadow Sun Dial
65. Grouchy Ladybug Clock Stories
Hands-On Math: Weights & Measurements
Measure and weigh in unique ways! Check out these cool ideas.
66. Hershey Weights & Measurements
67. Weighing with Pennies
68. Math Paper Tricks
69. Gallon Man
70.
Measuring with Magna-Tiles from Go Science Girls
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Hands on Math Activities for Kids
You are in the right place to find lots of fun hands-on math activities for kids. From learning to count and recognizing numbers to skip counting and addition.
Toddlers up to grade schoolers will enjoy many of these math activities!
Because we know that math wasn't everyone's favorite subject in school (it happened to be mine) we are making it super simple for you to help your child learn their numbers. We have created a week of activities to learn any number!
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There's a reason we created a week of number learning activities! We have a lot of them here at Hands On As We Grow!
Browse around below and you'll also find the most popular math activities for kids, those are a great place to start!
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Summary of the lesson "Left and right hand" | Plan-summary of a lesson in mathematics (senior group):
Summary of the lesson “Left and right hand”
Purpose: the formation in children of the ability to navigate on a plane and in space.
Tasks:
- formation of knowledge and skills to distinguish between left and right;
- development of motor skills with the help of finger gymnastics;
- formation of a positive attitude towards joint activities (the ability to work in a team).
The teacher and children enter the group in formation. The teacher reads A. Barto's verse "Drummer", and walks with the children in the group:
Left, right! Left, right!
A detachment is going to the parade.
A detachment is going to the parade,
Drummer Very happy.
Drumming Drumming
One and a half hours in a row!
Left, right! Left, right!
The drum is already full of holes.
The teacher and the children stop.
Educator: Children, it seems to me that in order for us to march more cheerfully, we need a drum. What do you think?
The children answer.
Educator: Where can we get a drum?
There is a piece of paper on the floor, the teacher draws the children's attention to it. Then he picks up the paper.
Educator: Children, this is a note. "If you want a drum, you need to go through a winding road according to the instructions: go straight first, then left, left again, then right and straight ahead.
" This is just what we need. You just need to know which is left and which is right. Children, you know?
The children answer.
Educator: I'll check you now. Let's play this game: if I say "right hand" you raise your right hand up, if - "left hand", then raise your left.
The teacher tells which hand to raise and corrects the children who show their hands incorrectly.
Educator: No, we can't find a drum like that. We all need to know where is left and where is right. Let's learn to distinguish between left and right. Come to me, I will tie a ribbon on everyone's right hand.
Children approach the teacher.
Teacher: Now raise your right hand.
Children raise their hands.
Educator: Remember, the side on which you have the ribbon is right. On this side you have the right arm and leg, and where there is no ribbon, it is the left side, left arm and left leg.
Teacher: Let's sing a song about the left and right legs. Look at me, repeat the movements and watch which hand you make the movements.
Left and right (song-exercise from the series "Finger Gymnastics" by E. Zheleznova)
Here is the left (raise the left hand with the back to you) and the right (raise the right hand with the back to you)
That's just their name (keep both hands up).
Inseparable girlfriends
Always walk together (hit knees with palms imitating walking).
Both the left (raise the left hand with the back side towards you) and the right (raise the right hand with the back side towards you)
Let's go for a walk alone (hit your knees with your palms imitating walking)
Found a big puddle
And started jumping in it (at the same time hitting the knees with both hands).
All wet and cold
They barely walk (slowly hit your knees with your palms imitating walking)
Suddenly left (raise your left hand with the back to yourself) and right (raise your right hand with the back to you).
We met a lion.
And he opened such a mouth (depict the mouth of a lion with his hands: press the hands, the fingers of both hands should not touch each other)
And he growls so scary (then connect, then separate the fingers)
That the left one (hit the knee with the left hand) runs home
And the right one (hit the knee with the right hand) runs.
They ran to the house (raise your hands above your head, depicting a roof).
Look: both are here (show both hands).
But they just forgot
What they are called now (shrug).
Where is the left, where is the right
Do not make it out by yourself (shrug your shoulders, hands to the sides).
Look quickly
And tell them (the teacher stretches out two hands forward and asks the children for help)!
Children first show where their left and right hands are, then they help the teacher.
Educator: Well done! Now let's take the ribbons off our hands and play again the game we played at first: if I say "right hand" you raise your right hand up, if - "left hand", then raise your left.
The teacher tells which hand to raise, then complicates the task by asking to show also the right and left legs. When all the guys stop getting confused, the teacher stops the game.
Educator: Now you can hit the road. Let's stand at the beginning of the path and read out where we should turn.
I will read and you will show. “Go straight first, then left, left again, then right and straight”
Children show the way.
Following the instructions, the children and the teacher find a box with a drum.
Educator: Well done! Let's each try to play the drum, and then I'll take the drum, and you and I will march again to its sound.
Summary of the lesson in mathematics "Right and left hand" | Outline of the lesson in mathematics (junior group):
Summary of the lesson on FEMP "Right and left sides" in the second younger group
Purpose: to learn to distinguish between the right and left hands
Tasks:
introduce the concept of "right" and "left";
develop thinking, attention, memory, speech;
cultivate the ability to work in a team;
Attributes for the lesson:
Doll Magician;
Gyenes blocks;
Umbrella;
Bracelets;
Ball;
Pictures ;
Course of the lesson:
Educator: Hello guys! Which hand do you have your bracelets on?
Children: on the right.
Educator: Do you want to go to a magical land? But to get there, we need the help of the Wizard, and he decided to fly today. Let's call the wind to bring the Wizard to us: let's wave our right hand, left, two, now wave from the elbow. Do you feel the breeze? Where is the magician?
The phone is ringing.
Educator: Guys! The Wizard called us and said that he could not fly to us in any way. However, he sent us his magic umbrella and invites us to visit him. Well, shall we fly to him?
Children: yes!
Educator: Children, which of you rode a bus, tram, trolleybus? In order to ride on transport, what do you need to buy?
Children: Ticket.
Educator: Despite the fact that our transport is magical. We need tickets to fly with an umbrella. And your tickets will not be easy, but magical.
The teacher shows the children Gyenesh blocks (dice and circle).
Game situation "Wonderful bag".
Each child in turn pulls out of the bag either a cube or a circle.
Educator: Timothy, you will be the first. What did you take out of the bag?
Timothy: cube.
Educator: What color is it?
Timothy: Yellow.
And so on. Until each of the children pulls out a figure from the bag.
Game situation "Magic Umbrella".
Educator: And here is our magic transport (opens an umbrella with a paper circle and a square attached to it). But in order to set off, you need to take seats according to your ticket. To the right of me stand the children who have cubes, and to the left those who have circles.
Educator: And in order for our umbrella to take off, let's wave our arms forward and backward. Our umbrella is already taking off and everyone is inviting the guys. Let's say the magic words: "One, two, three! Our umbrella - fly!
We approach the chair on which the Wizard is sitting.
Wizard: Hello, children!
Children: Hello Magician!
Wizard: I'm so glad you came to visit me.
Did you enjoy riding my magic umbrella?
Children: Yes!
Wizard : And now I invite you to play with me. Only the game is not easy, very difficult. In order to play it you need to know where is the right hand and where is the left. Do you already know?
Children: Yes!
Wizard: Then hurry up and sit on the chairs. We will play with you.
Game "Touch your left ear with your right hand, your right shoulder..."
Wizard: First, touch your nose with your right hand,
Then with your left hand, your nose,
With your left hand, your right leg,
With your right hand - to the left leg
And so on..
Wizard: Guys, you are so good! And no one got confused!
Wizard: Children, I brought a ball with me. Let's play?
Children: Come on!
Wizard: The one to whom I throw the ball must tell who is sitting to his right and who is to his left. Can you handle it?
The magician throws a ball to each child in turn and asks a question.
