97+ Amazing Ways to Make Math Fun for All September 16, 2020 By Bekki 11 Comments This content may contain affiliate links. Know someone this will bless? Share on Facebook Share Share on Pinterest Pin it Share on TwitterTweet Send To Devices Send Inside: A master list of simple, inexpensive, and fun ways to teach all the basic math principles your kids need to thrive. PLUS- Free Math Roadmap Most homeschoolers overcomplicate math with fancy curriculum, worksheets, quizzes, stop-watches and tests. We choose to be different! Stripping math back to its basic foundational core, we can set our kids up for success in life by giving them a solid foundation with allows them to add, subtract, multiply, divide, count, measure, weigh, and estimate. Pickin’ Cute!!! Most kids are not mathematicians hiding inside little bodies. They are dancers, chefs, architects, designers, farmers, mechanics, bankers, writers or yet-to-be-decideds. Let’s give our kids a solid foundation in the area of math so they can balance their checkbook, decide which deal is the best bargain, measure that granite with accuracy, give an estimate for that remodel, or plan out their crops. If they decide that math is their universe, then we can strap on a deep sea diving suit and bring them face to face the parabolas, quadratic formulas, and matrixes in the last years of high school or pass them off to a college professor. Pro Tips for Making Math Fun Balance using math manipulatives, patterning activities, measuring, and art with pencil and paper activities.Play math games related to the concepts being learned and practiced.Weave stories about math into the day.Find ways to eat math!Sing it! Songs stick and stay in our kid’s memory. Top Picks for AMAZING Math Supplies from Moms and Teachers Don’t feel pressure to get everything. A good set of math manipulatives, books, and games will help you and your kids have fun with math for years! I collected math manipulates for the first few years of homeschooling and teaching, even adding a kit or two during gift giving! Linking cubes for adding and subtracting, patterning and more Base Ten Blocks, for understanding place value, addition and subtraction Counting Bears for adding, subtracting, grouping, patterning, and more Number Line Activities Pattern Blocks Fishing Math Game Geometric Solids Pizza Fractions AMAZING flashcards Roman Numerals, time, money, decimals, and MORE Learning Kit For now, we serve our kids and their future best by giving them a solid foundation in math. Table of Contents of 16 Math Concepts Covered in the different activities here: Fine motor skillsColorsShapesPatterningSortingMath artAddition/subtractionTally marksNumber linesMultiplication/DivisionEstimatingFractionsDecimalsMoneyTimePercentages 4 Ways to Build and Strengthen Fine Motor Skills According to studies, “fine motor skills were a better predictor of early maths ability than they were of early reading ability,” (source) Safety Tip: You know this, but I have to say it anyway… Kids like to put things in their mouths. Always closely supervise your kids when they are working with things they might choose to taste. Like Legos, marbles, pom poms, and play dough. If it fits through a toilet paper roll, consider it a choking hazard and watch them closely. Pom-Pom Sorting by Busy Toddler Texture Balloons for Kids by Little Bins for Little Hands Pasta Threading Activity by Laughing Kids Learn Play dough Fun Trays by Pocket of Preschool Fine Motor Skills Printable Bundle by A Better Way to Homeschool YES!!! 8 Fun Ways to Teach Kids Colors and Shapes Songs about colors collected by Prekinders Goldfish sorting by Live Like You Are Rich Hungry Monster Sorters by Like Like You Are Rich Easy Color Wheel Sorting by Craftionary FREE All About Colors Learning Pack by This Reading Mama How to teach a toddler their colors by Live like you are rich My First Colors Learning shapes unit by Planning Playtime FREE Dab a Dot Shapes by 123 Homeschool 4 me 36+ Fun Patterning and Sorting Activities FREE Bear Counter Strip Patterns by The Measured Mom Bear counter fun Introducing Patterns to Toddlers by Busy Toddler Shape Sorting for Toddlers by Mess for Less My Favorite Shape Sorter by Melissa and Doug Graph that Pattern by A Better Way to Homeschool How to Introduce patterns to preschoolers Pattern Shape sorter Pattern Block Printable cards 30 Hands On Math Printables 25+ Fun with Math-Art Ideas 21 Math Art Ideas by What Do We Do All Day Print and Color Tessellations by Frugal Fun for Boys Math Art Projects Math Pattern Blocks for Art Print and Color Tessellation Puzzles The Art of Circles by Nurture Store Radial Symmetry by Art with Mrs. Nguyen Compass Painting by Housing a Forest Math fractions and symmetry 7+ FUN Addition and Subtraction Activities and Ideas Whack a Ball Subtraction Game by Planning Playtime Addition puzzles to 100 by Teaching Products Addition and Subtraction Fun Sheets by A Better Way to Homeschool Addition and subtraction BUNDLE by Rebekah Sayler Fun with Uni fix Cubes by Homegrown Learners Good old fashioned flash cards Counting with centimeter cubes 4 Tally Mark and Number Line Activities Tally Marks: Right Start Math Activity by Two Happy Homeschoolers Tally Marks Activity by Kindergarten Smorgasboard Walk the Number Line by PBS LEGO Number Line by Royalbaloo 7 Fun Multiplication and Division Activities and Ideas Star Wars Multiplication Practice by A Better Way to Homeschool Multiplication Bundle by A Better Way to Homeschool How to teach multiplication and Division with LEGO by Math Geek Mama Hands-On Division Activity by Rainy Day Mum 2 Fun Estimating Activities for Kids Estimation Jars for Preschool by Mama Papa Bubba Estimating Task Cards FREE by You’ve Got this Math Related: Why Teaching BOTH estimation and accuracy are important. 7 Fun Ways to Teach Kids Fractions Cooking Camp for Kids by A Better Way to Homeschool Pizza Fraction Project by 4th Grade Frolics Fraction Mats by ABCs with Mrs B 5 FUN Decimal Activities and Ideas Rules of Decimals by Moore Resources How to introduce decimals by Classroom Caboodle FREE Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Game By Math Geek Mama 4 FUN Money Activities and Ideas Budgeting for Kids by A Better Way to Homeschool FREE Counting Money Flip Cards by Life Over CS Coin Caterpillar by Miss Kindergarten Money Sorting Mat by Mrs. Hodge and Her Kindergarten Kids 4 Fun Activities and Ideas for Teaching Time Making Clocks to Practice Telling Time by A Better Way to Homeschool Hula Hoop Clock by Creekside Learning It’s Always Time to Pray by A Better Way to Homeschool After School Routine Clock by Heathered Nest The Easy Way to Solve Percentages Additional Math FUN Image Know someone this will bless? 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