Children learn by doing
Research in education tells us over and over that hands on activities have more impact than verbal or written explanations alone. Simple manipulatives and pictures are used as key elements to illustrate math concepts.
Download our free guidelines and templates for games, outright playful and more serious activities to develop the math centers in your children’s brain. There are sample activities to develop number sense, visuo-spatial activities and templates. Have fun!
Please register for free, to give us an idea if activities are useful as a guidance to expand the website in the future. We never share your information with any other organization, see our Terms and Conditions – Privacy Policy.
| Number sense activities | Math concept | |
| Rules of Thumb | General approach for teaching your child | |
| Number walk and Bedtime book | Learning number words, counting, one to one relationship, starting with the numerals | |
| Take a guess before you count | Subitizing, small quantity estimation, quantity comparison | |
| Learning to count on the kitchen tiles | Counting up and counting down, numerals | |
| First, Second, and Third place | Play a game to learn the cardinal numbers | |
| Number cards counting and sorting activity NEW | Counting by ones and tens, and sorting by tens | |
| Number-line addition and subtraction | Number-line, distance, counting, skip counting, addition, subtraction | |
| On the Double | Introducing the concept of multiplication by doubling | |
| Conquer the Multiplication Tables | Basic understanding of the multiplication tables till ten | |
| Help with fractions | Help your child to grasp the concept of fractions | |
| Understanding fractions and Fractions Booklet | Explanation how to make the most of the Fractions Booklet | |
| Fractions Booklet | My fractions book: whole and parts, add and subtract like parts | |
| Fraction Notation activities and cards NEW | Understanding Fraction notation and concepts | |
| Cross out cross-multiplication | Prevent confusion with cross-multiplication by showing all steps | |
| Visuo-spatial activities | Math concept | |
| Symmetry activity: looking left and right | Symmetry drawings: sizes and shapes, line of symmetry, symmetrical shape | |
| Ruler number sense activity NEW | Estimating size of numbers | |
| Thinking about Area by folding | Fold to divide an area in similar parts, area is width times length | |
| Pegboards | Copy patterns and shapes | |
| Patterns from concrete to abstract | From patterns with concrete objects to number patterns | |
| Templates | Math concept | |
| Counting place-mat | Counting to five | |
| Number-bonds place-mat | Number-bonds to ten | |
| Number cards | Color coded number cards 1 – 100 | |
| Base ten template | Ones, tens, hundreds | |
| Domino Doubles cards | Learning the Doubles from 0 – 9 | |