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. The next 3 activities listed, are not math activities, but can help to achieve this.
This is a fun activity to get to know your students. Perfect for the beginning of the school year or if your meeting a new group of students.
Included is both U.K and U.S spelling versions.
This is a great back to school activity to on the first day – especially if you have a class full of students who don’t know each other. This activity gets your new class moving around and finding out information about their fellow classmates.
Back to School Activities 5th grade – 8th Grade: All About Me and My Family.
Perfect for the first weeks of middle school, this unit will help you to build better relationships with your students and increase the home-school link. Also suitable for upper elementary.
