Back to School Math Activities | 10 Beginning of the Year Math Community Activities

Description

These back to school math activities bring classroom routines and a sense of community into your math lessons. They are just right for the first week of school, with a focus on becoming mathematicians, using math tools, cooperative learning, partner games, word problems, and making numbers.

Activities Included

• Let’s Talk About Math: a class T-chart and printable about what students know and want to learn
• Mathematicians Can, Have, and Are: anchor chart templates
• Mathematician writing activity: students make themselves as a mathematician
• Find a Friend: make an addition bracelet and find friends to write equations
• Math tools exploration
• Tools or Toys?: a whole-group sort and printable
• Silent Puzzles: 5 group puzzles for cooperative learning
• Draw and Solve booklet: addition and subtraction word problems, plus 8 extra word problem strips
• Partner Games: Spin to Add, Spin to Subtract, Spin and Compare, and Roll and Add
• Making Numbers: a class chart and flap-book sorts

What’s Included

• 10 back to school math activities
• 84 pages

Ways to Use

• The first week of school
• Building math routines
• Cooperative learning

Good to Know

Some partner games need dice or paperclips. The mathematician craft is also sold on its own.

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