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100 Frame Bingo

A bingo board with numbers to the left.
Students will practice arranging place value to compose two-digit numbers in this variation of Bingo.

Alphabetical Statistics: Part 1

Letters linked to numbers and a title that reads, "Alphabetical Statistics".
Using excerpts from books, students predict, collect samples, and compare their findings to make statistical inferences about larger sets of data.

Alphabetical Statistics: Part 2

Letters linked to numbers and a title that reads, "Alphabetical Statistics".
Using excerpts from books, students predict, collect samples, and compare their findings to make statistical inferences about larger sets of data.

Animal Grid Game

Animal Grid Offline Coding
Students love this offline coding lesson! They get to be the zookeeper feeding animals.

Area and Perimeter

Graph papers overlapping with a title that reads, "Area and Perimeter".
Students use the sum of two dice to create the perimeter and area of shapes on a grid.

Barrier Game

A binder dividing the space of two people and a title that reads, "Barrier Game".
One student builds a structure and gives instructions to his/her partner to build an identical structure.

Base Ten Block Quick Image

Lines and dots making a star like shape with a title that reads, "Base Ten Block Quick Image"
One student builds a structure and gives instructions to his/her partner to build an identical structure.

Block Party

A grid with different Tetris pieces and dots within it, and a title that reads, "Block Party".
Using their spatial skills, students transform and relocate unique shapes on a coordinate grid, attempting to avoid their opponent's pegs.

Box or Not?

Three Tetris style pieces with a title that reads, "Box or Not?"
Students sort and classify 2D/3D figures by geometric properties and using spatial language.

Can You Draw This?

A child drawing with a title that reads, "Can You Draw This?".
Students are briefly shown a series of designs inside a square and must recreate them from memory.

Can You Make a Square?

A bunch of different shapes with a title that reads, "Can you make a square?"
Students use spatial reasoning to create squares using different tangram combinations.

Card Collectors

Four playing cards stacked with a title that reads, "Card Collectors".
Students work in teams to determine the maximum, minimum, mean, median, mode and range of a group of playing cards.

Coding Pictures

An image made within a square pattern, and a title that reads, "Coding Pictures".
Students practice coding skills in order to recreate an image.

Collect the Shapes

Random shapes on a grid with a title that reads, "Collect the Shapes".
Children collect 2D shapes on a grid by giving directional instructions and answering questions on shapes attributes.

Copy My Flag

Two flags made of paper with a title that reads, "Copy My Flag".
Students will practice their spatial language as they design and describe their geometric flags to their partner.

Cube Challenge

A bunch of cubes making shapes on a table with a title that reads, "The Cube Challenge".
In this lesson, students work together to build 21 unique structures out of 3, 4, and 5 unifix cubes. Can you build them all?

Daily Calendar

A classroom with a bunch of people seated and an instructor standing and pointing at a calendar. A title reads, "Daily Calendar".
This daily lesson with many small activities gives students the opportunity to practice all five strands of math every day.

Dice Toss

Two dice with a title that reads, "Dice Toss".
Students engage in a simple probability experiment that requires dice and mental math strategies.

Don't Break the Hex

Ten hexagons and a title that reads, "Don't Break the Hex".
Students cover hexagon blocks with pattern blocks in this don't-get-caught-with-blocks-in-your-hand game!

Doubling Up

A woman with a room full of items. A title reads, "Doubling Up".
Help children understand exponential growth and doubling with this fun hands-on activity.

Exploring Tangrams

Students working with tangrams and a title that reads, "Exploring Tangrams".
The history behind tangrams is a great way to explore composition, decomposition and spatial reasoning.

Hexagon Card Game

Four white hexagons and various other shapes. A title reads, "Hexagon Card Game".
Students race to completely fill in the outline of a hexagon using different combinations of pattern blocks.

Number Hunt

A bunch of numbers and dots in circles with a title that reads, "Number Hunt".
Students practice one-to-one correspondence in this fun dice-rolling, bingo-dabbing game!

Secret Shape Code

Six different shapes with a title that reads, "Secret Shape Code".
Students develop spatial skills by practicing how to describe the location and orientation of different cut-out shapes

Shape Shifter

A grid with blocks and circles, and a title that reads, "Shape Shifter".
Enhance students spatial sense using grid coordinates, geometric transformations and problem solving.

Shape Slicer

Shapes on a page with a title that reads, "Shape Slicer".
Students are challenged to deconstruct geometric shapes into smaller shapes!

Smarties Graph

A graph with a bowl of Smarties in front of it.
Every box of Smarties contains a different amount of each colour. Children graph what their box contains.

Spatializing Area

Two pieces of paper with blue and grey squares over top. A title reads, "Spatializing Area".
Students use cutout shapes to understand the relationship between size, area and relevant measurements.

Square Moves

A student and instructor with a title that reads, "Square Moves".
Students transform tiles from one configuration to another, using spatial language to communicate their thinking.

Talking Tetris

Different shapes on grid paper with a title that reads, "Talking Tetris".
Students use directional vocabulary to compose and decompose structures on a grid using various 2D shapes.

Terrific Transformations

Two shapes drawn on two different sheets of graphing paper. A title reads, "Terrific Transformations".
Students get practice visualizing and manipulating features of quadrilaterals as they compete to modify a shape using as few moves as possible.

Upside Down World

A student playing with blocks and a title that reads, "Upside Down World".
Students work with unifix cubes to rebuild "buildings" that have been turned upside down!

War

Cards playing the game war, with a title that reads, "War".
Students practice with number magnitude in a simple card game.

We Are the Same

A bunch of math problems with a title that reads, "We are the same".
Students are given a card with an equation, numbers or dots. They must determine who has an equivalent card.