Seasonal Math Topics
These math activities are organized by seasons. Elementary teachers often incorporate seasonal activities as craft projects. Many of these seasonal craft projects can be mathematical as well with a little forethought. Browse the activities for projects to add that reinforce mathematical concepts and skills through seasonal and holiday themes.
Back-to-School Math Activities
Each of these Mathwire.com webpages discusses activities and games that support student development of number sense and the concept of mathematical operations. Pictures on each webpage capture students doing the activity or represent student work. PDF files are available for download with game mats, directions, recording sheets, etc. as required by each game or activity.
Fall Math Activities
These fall activities develop mathematical concepts using fall themes of holidays, pumpkins, scarecrows, leaves, and turkeys.
- See Fall into Math for fall and Halloween math activities
Pascal's Pumpkins introduces students to the patterns found in Pascal's triangle.
- Pascal's Ghosts introduces students to the patterns found in Pascal's triangle.
- Directions for making Symmetric Faces pictured at right.
- Symmetric Pumpkin Challenge requires students to complete the right side of a jack-o-lantern to create a symmetric figure.
- Directions for making Measurement Man
- See pictures of Measurement Man in Fall Student Work.
- Fall into Math for some seasonal pumpkin measurement activities.
- See pictures of Student Halloween Glyphs.
- See pictures of Student Turkey Glyphs
Winter Math Activities
These activities develop mathematical concepts using winter themes of holidays, snow, snowmen and penguins.
- Winter Math Activities for winter and holiday math activities
- Twelve Days of Christmas problem solving activities that investigate the growing pattern found in this holiday song. Online links provide information on the current prices of the gifts so that students can calculate the total cost of the twelve day extravaganza.
- See pictures of Student Winter Activities.
- See more Patterning activities and problems in the Winter Math activities.
- February Math Activities for Valentine's Day and Winter Olympics activities
Spring Math Activities
These mathematical growing activities tie into spring planting activities.
Summer Math Activities
The activities found on these Mathwire.com webpages support students as they answer questions about the world around them. Learning to organize and analyze data are important life skills that students will use in both their professional and personal lives.
100th Day Activities
These activities help students use organized lists and systematic counting to solve combination problems. Map coloring and networks are also discrete math problems that students can relate to real-world applications.
- at spell WINTER and relate the solution to the appropriate row of Pascal's triangle. [PDF]
Problem Solving
The following link to Mathwire.com problem-solving webpages. The open-ended problem solving tasks found in these sections challenge students to apply mathematical concepts and language to everyday problems. Students also learn to explain their thinking using words, pictures and numbers. The use of a problem-solving rubric helps students target a best performance by using the prompts found in the rubric.
- Winter Math Activities for some seasonal math problem solving activities including discrete math topics
- Hundred Board Logic Problems
- Problem Solving Resources by grade level
