How to Make Math more fun for Your Kids

Inside: 7 Math Picture Books For Kids

As I dreamed about my future as a little girl, I KNEW I was going to do a few things.

Be an amazing wife and mom.
Grow up to be a teacher.
And dance. I was CONVINCED I’d be a ballerina.

The only problem I didn’t factor in, was math.

It turns out that being good at math and teaching math are two very different skill sets.

How do you bring math to life for your kids?

I stayed awake many nights trying to figure that out.

It turns out the solution is also one of my favorite “do with kids” activities.

Reading!

7 Math Picture Books For Kids

The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague

After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades.

Do Not Open This Math Book: Addition + Subtraction

Finally, a FUN book to read with kids that helps bridge the gap between what’s being taught in school and how today’s parents learned math back in the day. Giggle your way through entertaining lessons on addition and subtraction involving muffins, turkey sandwiches, kittens, googly eyes, and more!

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars

Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full of constantly changing numbers, from a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth. Can you imagine that many of anything?

Place Value

You had better not monkey around when it comes to place value. The monkeys in this book can tell you why!

Order of Operations Task Cards

Students work backwards from the answer and a set of four numbers.

Using the information given, the student (or team) must add the appropriate symbols to solve their task.

Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure

Crack the case with George Cornelius Factor in this entertaining math adventure that introduces simplified and reduced fractions with equal parts intrigue and humor.

When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down.

I’m Trying to Love Math

Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I’m Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways — like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies!

Fall Worksheets: Math Mazes, Targets and more

These Fun Math worksheets are all centered around 3rd Grade multiplication practice and mastery.

9 No PREP 3rd Grade Math-Multiplication Activities Included in this pack:

3rd Grade Math: Multiplication- Mazes solved with multiples
3rd Grade Math- Sudoku puzzles
3rd Grade Math: Multiplication-Candy Corn Multiplication Families

The Grapes Of Math

“This…clever math book uses rhyming couplets… riddles…visual clues to help the reader find new ways to group numbers for quick counting…A winning addition!