If your youngsters are new to numbers, here are several interactive strategies to get them thinking about even and odd numbers. For example, they can count the number of desks, people, etc. in the room and determine if it is even or odd....

In this math instructional activity, young learners receive a numeral written on a paper and arrange themselves in chronological order. They illustrate skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's using their numerals and then complete an...

An interactive provides five questions that challenge scholars to decide whether integers are even or odd parity. A table assists problem solving with movable numbers that plug into equations and reveal the given parity. Question types...

Help your students to identify even and odd numbers. In this number sense instructional activity, they read the book Madeline and use counters to identify which number has a "partner." Learners write down odd and even numbers on a...

Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with an addition activity. Scholars solve problems and color answers different colors depending on whether they are even or odd.   

Youngsters solve the given equations, and color each heart purple or red depending on whether it's even or odd.

Students practice the concept of mathematical closure as it relates to even and odd numbers. In this math lesson, students perform 4 different tasks to  understand the number closure concept. Students identify, explain, predict,...

The class explores even and odd numbers.They discuss the results when even numbers are added and when odd numbers are added together. Then work in pairs to find other odd and even pattern examples.

Here, second graders are tasked to find the patterns that have an even number of tiles. They are asked to think about why these patterns are even or odd and explain how they know.

Learners identify the right number "ingredients" to add to their pot of "soup" given a rule that you provide. Whether you are covering even and odd numbers or equivalent expressions, the number soup can be an easy way for learners...

Five days of lessons develop number sense and counting patterns, including odd and even numbers, 5s and 10s, doubles, and ways to make 10. Each session opens with fun finger play to reinforce counting and reasoning about numbers. Various...

Third graders determine the outcome of each of the following situations and justify their findings: even number + even number = ?, even number + odd number = ?, odd number + odd number = ?, and odd number + even number = ?.

Some resources are just wonderful for stimulating creative thinking and concept understanding. Children are encouraged to explore odd and even numbers through a variety of creative activities. They group items, read a story, make an...

It's fun being odd! Have kids find their way through a paw print maze by connecting odd numbers in any direction, eventually connecting to a cute dog's bone in the middle of the puzzle.

An interactive resource challenges mathematicians to show what they know about prime factorization. Five multiple-choice, true or false, and discussion questions use chocolate chip cookies to set a real-world application of the...

First graders identify odd and even numbers. In this odd and even numbers instructional activity, 1st graders participate in a partner activity to determine odd and even. Students break into groups and lock arms together and are...

Students explore numbers 1-100.  In this cross curriculum literacy and numeration lesson, students listen to the book More or Less by Stuart J. Murphy. Students play a game with a partner in which they guess the "mystery number"...

First graders practice number identification by reading a story in class. In this number sense lesson, 1st graders read the story A Wish for Wings that Work and identify objects within the book's photographs. Students count the number of...

First graders explore odd and even numbers.

Budding mathematicians identify growing patterns in numbers and songs then create their own patterns. They look at number patterns and language patterns and then create their own using money and footprints.

Learners listen to a read aloud of Harriet Ziefert's Bears Odd Bears Even. They count cubes and counters to classify and show numbers as odd or even.

Upper graders study how to extend a vertical number line to include negative numbers; order numbers on the number line; and find the distance between numbers on a number line. They will begin with a game using dice to explore...

Practice sequencing numbers 1–100 in a card sequencing activity. The hands-on learning makes a short activity flexible and fun. The opportunities are endless and easy to implement.

The ABCs of math are so important. Find commonly used math terms in a 42-page packet. Each page has the word, a place to write the definition, and a place to give specific examples of the term. A must-have for all math classrooms!