Math is all around our everyday life! 

• Review this list of activities to find ways to “mathematize” everyday activities and to support the idea that math is everywhere around us!  
• Try to complete one activity every other day

i-Ready

Standards-aligned math activites are available to your students.

• Help your student do 2 to 3 math lessons per week (approximately 45 minutes) as well as 20 minutes of math learning games per week. 
• Consider using additional i-Ready resources with your student

Math Games

Use the links to access instructions for fun math games! 

• Play a game with a partner.  Partners could be a peer, sibling, or adult. 
• Think about strategies you are using while playing the game to help you be more successful. 
• Ask your partner why they make certain moves in the game to learn about their strategies for playing.  

• Bowl-A-Fact Directions and Recording Sheet 
• Circles and Stars 
• Digit-Place Start by playing with a 3-digit number and then increase to challenge your student.   
• Magic Triangles   
• Pyramid Puzzles   
• Remainder Race Directions and Gameboard
• Target Number 
• Tic-Tac-Toe Product

Card Games

Use the links to access instructions for fun math card games! Ask your student about math-related strategies they use while playing the game 

• Why did you do make that move? 
• What number are you hoping to roll? Why? 
• What card are you hoping to draw?  Why? 
• What will happen if you roll/draw a ___ this time? 
• What do you not want to draw/roll?  Why?  

K-2 Card Games 

• General Card Game Ideas for Kids 
• Name that Number 
• Thirty-One 
• Closest to 10. 
• Close to 20 
• The 5 by 5 Game 

Grades 3-5 Card Games 

• Salute 
• The Greatest Product/The Smallest Quotient 
• Target 200 
• Close to 1,000

 Counting Collections Instruction

Use the link below to access instructions for fun counting games! 

• Student can count collections of items around the house (pennies, cheerios, LEGOs, buttons, etc.). 
  Sample Collection size (adjust based on the need of your student):
  • Kindergarten: 20-50 items 
  • First Grade: 75-120 items
  • Second Grade:  100+ items
  • Third through fifth grade: 100-300 items  

Students can record how they counted on the count record sheet (see recording sheets attached to the link at left).  

• Ask questions about how your student counted. 
• Provide tools to help your student organize their count like small plates, cups, ten frames (attached to link below) and empty egg cartons

Extension Activities

Use the links to access instructions for fun math extensions! 

• Follow the directions on the problem-solving tasks. 
• Most tasks will take more than one day. 

 Prodigy

Prodigy is a platform for students to play games and learn math at the same time! Check with teacher about log in.