Activities · 02-07-2014

A warm-up is a short activity at the start of a lesson to jump-start students' thinking. Warm-ups have many purposes including: to introduce a new topic to reinforce skills to motivate students to prepare students to learn to assess how much students know The following warm-up is a magic square for students who have mastered math addition facts and need a challenge. A magic square is a matrix in which the numbers in every row, column, and diagonal add up to the same number. In this magic...

Activities · 01-18-2014

A warm-up is a short activity at the start of a lesson to jump-start students' thinking. Warm-ups have many purposes including: to introduce a new topic to reinforce skills to motivate students to prepare students to learn to assess how much students know Warm-up time is also a great time to promote higher order thinking. For example, students who have mastered the math facts may be bored with the following warm-up:

Activities · 09-25-2013

The mental math problems below are both fun and challenging. Children must listen, combine the information, remember the information, and perform the operation. It is a playful way to reinforce facts and offers an alternative to rote memorization. This set is appropriate for children in grades 3-4, depending on their math levels, but you can alter the operations or content to differentiate for individual needs. After you complete these problems, have the children create their own. Encourage...

Activities · 07-22-2013

I always disliked tedious math fact drills, but the mental math problems below are both fun and challenging. Children must listen, combine the information, remember the information, and add. It is a playful way to reinforce basic addition facts and offers an alternative to rote memorization. This addition set is appropriate for children in grades 2-4, depending on their math levels. When you complete this set of problems, have the children create their own. Encourage them to use groups of items...

Activities · 07-08-2013

If you are looking for math resources for your child, especially math fact reinforcement, visit the website aplusmath.com. The game room section includes math facts concentration which is a challenge for younger students because the player has to know the math facts and remember the placement of the cards.