Kindergarten Math Activities
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Teaching activities
Kindergarten math activities are fun to teach and make learning enjoyable for your students. Before teaching math activities, understand how young children learn math, what skills they need to learn, and how to use math activities, materials, and games to make math meaningful.
How do children learn math?
What we believe about how children learn math will determine the teaching methods we choose. Young children are great at teaching teachers what works. Rather than sit politely when things don't make sense, they quickly find something else to do!
Integrate math with other subjects
It is easy to integrate math into other areas of your curriculum and you will find many ideas throughout kindergarten-lessons.com. Include kindergarten math activities in the areas of classification, matching, ordering and patterns, ordinal number, operations, graphing and maps, measurement, geometry, and probability.
How to teach math pages:
Page 1: Kindergarten math activities - What we believe about how children learn will determine the teaching methods we choose.
Page 2: So how do young children learn math?
Page 3: Math - what skills am I teaching?
Math activities table of contents:
How to teach math successfully:
Teaching kindergarten and preschool math - how kids learn math
Kindergarten and preschool math - What skills do I teach?
Teaching math with manipulatives:
Teaching with math manipulatives- helping students get it...
Ten steps to teaching with math manipulatives - an example...
Best math manipulatives - choose products that teach more than one math concept
Teaching math vocabulary:
Vocabulary - how to teach math vocabulary
Specific areas of the math curriculum:
GEOMETRY & SPATIAL SENSE
GEOMETRY - What geometry and spatial skills should I teach? Geometry activities
ATTRIBUTE BLOCKS -Teach logical thinking, geometry and spacial sense
SORTING - Develop classification skills with kindergarten sorting games
CLASSIFICATION - teach classification vocabulary an skills with games
SYMMETRY -Teach early learners about symmetry
GEOMETRY GAMES - simple games that reinforce geometry concepts
PATTERN
Pattern 1- what pattern skills do students need to learn? Teaching tips
Pattern 2- ideas and games to recognize, create, copy and extend patterns
Pattern page three - help children know what you mean when you say"pattern"
NUMBER SENSE
Number Activities - how to provide experiences that build number sense
Learning Numbers - more activities to help children learn numbers
Number Games - how to improve children's number sense with easy games
Number Skills - what number skills do children need to know?
GRAPHING AND DATA ENTRY
Graphing 1 - what do I teach? how do kids collect data and organize it?
Graphing 2 - what do we graph? sample graphing lesson
Check out the SCIENCE section for more graphing and data collection ideas
MEASUREMENT
Teaching measurement - measurement skills and ideas to teach them
MONEY
Teach about money skills & activities
Teach about money with games
Teach about money with fundraising projects
CONNECT MATH AND LITERATURE
Math & literature connections - books increase mathematical thinking
Ten Apples Up On Top! - open-ended math activity with a Dr. Suess book...
10 Little Rubber Ducks - ideas to promote math with this wonderful Eric Carle story
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo - practice counting, making number sets, ordinal numbers and more
One Hundred Hungry Ants - practice counting larger numbers and comparing single file to sets of 10s
Share your favorite book that connects math to literature
Math index- just math pages
