Kindergarten Math Activities

My friend asked me about the math we've been doing with Logan. I kept meaning to post this info for her. It took a while, but here it is finally! These are some of the things we've done recently for math (we also use the Right Start Math curriculum).

Skip counting: Practice skip counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, etc. up to 200 with these mazes http://www.printactivities.com/Mazes.html I laminated ours so Logan could do them more than once

Time: One activity we did quite a bit was to take a blank clock face (no numbers) and to practice putting the hours (1-12) around the edge of the clock in the correct spot. Once that was easy for Logan, we took a clock with the numerals and then put the five minute increments around the edge of the clock. :05, :10, :15... up to :55.

Here's an online Game Logan does to practice matching the digital time with the analog time http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec1.html
Clothes pins time game (see picture) http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/TrainTimeClipCards.htm

Addition:
Addition Math War -- a card game. The person with the highest amount wins the round
Popsicle Stick Math Facts -- Place addition math facts on Popsicle sticks with the answers at the bottom. Stick them in sand and have child self check his/her math facts.
Math Fact Card Toss Relay -- Throw flashcard as far as possible, run, pick it up, solve it and race back so the next person can go. Race for 3 (or whatever) minutes solving as many facts as possible.
Mathlines Online Game -- Practice the sums equaling 4 (5, 6... up to 15). You blaster has a number, shoot the ball that gets you 4 (2+2, 1+3) http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-math-lines/addition-10.html
Math Monster Game: Write out the equations you want to practice (5+7 and the answer 12 on a different sheet). (See pictures) Give the child the answer and spread the equations around the back yard. You are the Monster trying to freeze them before they get the correct answer. If you tag them and they think they have the right answer, they check it with you. If they are correct they are free, if not they are frozen until another player sets them free. We play this with Delenn who has to find a number (1 through 12) and tell the Math Monster what number she has. The Math Monster won if she froze all players.

Place Value up to 1000:
Sunny Side Up -- a dice game for learning single and double digits. I wrote about it some time back and will paste that in here again:

Today we played Sunny Side Up -- a great game for those learning the
double-digit numbers. It's an actual game we got from Grams and Gramps,
but could be used with normal dice too. I doctored the game to play with
Logan. Here's how we play: There are 5 dice -- numbers 1-to-5 and a
sunny side (6 could be your "wild" number or you can just make your
numbers include a 6). Each person gets a sheet with 9 numbers on
them between 1 and 55 (using only the digits 1 to 5)
-- I typed the sheets up myself. For example, one sheet has the numbers
41, 54, 32, 13, 43, 25, 4, 5 and 9. Each sheet is different (I made a
whole bunch at once to save for later).

Directions:
1) Roll the 5 dice
2) Determine which numbers you can cross out, you can only use each die one time
3) Sunny Side can be used for any digit

Montessori Math
Right now we are using a lot of Montessori Math materials for practicing place value. These will make more sense if you look at the pictures I posted below.

Here's the site where I got a lot of my free math manipulatives http://www.montessorimaterials.org/math.htm

I got the purple beads in the pictures below at this site, for example.
http://www.montessorimaterials.org/Math/Bead1_10.pdf
http://www.montessorimaterials.org/Math/Beads_Hun_Thou.pdf

I also got the Teen board there--http://www.montessorimaterials.org/Math/teens-board.pdf.

I got the Stamp Cards (1 units, 10s, 100s, 1000s for practicing place value here http://www.montessorimaterials.org/Math/stampgame1.pdf -- just print them out on colored paper). My numerals were bought from Right Start math, but you can print them out from Montessori Materials here: http://www.montessorimaterials.org/math1.html

Money -- We also work with US coins, but I don't have time to post much about that at the moment. One activity that has been a big hit has been the candy store (I think I posted pictures a while back). You can print out these cards and have your kids shop for candy (with real coins). Printables are at this website: http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/MoneyCandyCards.htm