8 fun back to school math activities
8 fun back to school math activities!
Math escape rooms, whodunnit adventures and powerpoint games!
Heading back to the classroom at school or home? Let’s make it fun and enjoyable for kids. Learning happens naturally when kids are enjoying the challenge of a task. More often than not with students it’s about how the activity is presented that makes it more exciting and these days it’s easy to find heaps of great resources online that you can download, print out or do interactively.
Our math activities are designed to keep your students engaged and excited about math. They are at a level that should reinforce your students math knowledge and skill and present problems that most students will be familiar with.
Here’s our top 8 list:
A science experiment gone wrong, the teachers are trapped by some crazy plants that have taken over the school and the principle needs help to get everything back in order! A fun math escape room which comes with both a printable version and a google slide version.
Great for upper elementary and middle school students. Print, Boom Card, & Google Slide Version!
Students have to use their math skills to eliminate suspects (teachers) so they can find out who raided the school staffroom. You can use the teacher suspects supplied – or edit in your own teachers if you dare…
This bundle has all your holidays and seasons covered, including: Christmas (Standard+Advanced), Thanksgiving, Halloween, Back to School, Easter (Standard+Advanced), Chinese New Year, and Saint Patrick’s Day.
With advanced versions of the Easter and Christmas products!
Your students will LOVE doing these. Great for upper elementary (primary) school students and lower middle school also.
Grades 4-7:
This PowerPoint math game is great to use as a fun back to school math warm-up or just as a fun activity to review some math skills. It can be used as a whole class activity, a small group activity, or an individual activity if the students have their own devices.
A fun way to get your students thinking about math again during back to school time.
Includes 3 multiplication hidden messages.
Also includes 3 back to school number puzzles: a school theme, a bus theme and a bag theme.
The above activities are great to do as fun back to school math activities. However, during this time of year having a focus on building positive relationships, both student-student, and student-teacher, is important. There are many ways to do this, and one way is to simply to get to know your students, find out about them and what makes them tick.