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Probability & Game Theory

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson plan, students perform various probability experiments including flipping a coin, picking m&m's out of a bag, and the birthday problem.
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Third Grade Math Jeopardy

For Teachers 3rd
Third grade math concepts in an interactive, "Jeopardy" style format are reviewed in this presentation. The concepts include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Tip: Great review activity.
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Popcorn

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
What a great way to have your kids practice odd and even number recognition. They play the game called "Odd and Even Popcorn," to practice odd and even numbers.
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Graphing Ordered Pairs On A Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Sinking ships, construction paper, coordinate planes, sounds like fun day in math class. Play the game Battleship with your class and reinforce the concept of graphing ordered pairs.
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The Young Basketball Player

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore the history of basketball by reading and listening to a book entitled, "The Young Basketball Player." Afterwards, they create a trivia basketball game and write an interview for their favorite player. As a cross-curriculum...
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Grab the Candy

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ordered pairs worksheet, students place candy shaped markers on a grid sheet. They roll the dice to form an ordered pair. They place a marker on that grid square and take the candy piece if there is one located there.
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Body Math

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.
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The 3R's: Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete seven work stations that highlight math activities while they focus on the rules for Internet use and classroom rules for working in cooperative groups. After completing the activities, they complete a self-...
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Patterns and Pentominoes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in a class discussion about how pentominoes figure into the plot of "Chasing Vermeer." They then solve pentominoe puzzles and play interactive games. Resource links are provided for the activities and puzzles.
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Favorite School Activities

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this school activities worksheet, learners complete the sentence using one of the phrases from the word bank related to their favorite school activities. Students then draw a picture of the activity.
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Coins: Names and Value

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read the story Benny's Pennies and play a matching game where they match the coin to it's value. In this coins lesson plan, students use the SMART Board to view coins.
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Number Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Students practice...
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Shape Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore shapes. In this math lesson, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.
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Coin-a-copia: A Thanksgiving Glyph Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore glyphs that are pictorial representations of data. Students collect and display data about themselves and a variety of other topics. Students practice using a legend to analyze and interpret data.
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Fitness Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in physical fitness activities. They role a dice and perform the activity associated with the dice number. Activities include push ups, toe touches, curl ups, jump rope, jumping jacks, sit-ups, and shooting a...
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Place Value Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
For this place value worksheet, students in pairs shuffle a set of place value cards and then lay them out face down on a table. Students then draw a card and place it under one of their place value cards.
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Addition

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of number bonds with your young elementary students. They will become familiar with the number bonds to 10, 20, and 100, and then play games to practice these skills. This is a differentiated instructional activity...
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Math Challenge

For Teachers K - 5th
Students, using laminated math flash cards, play a review game with a partner. Also using Polyspots, they run, walk, or skip to the board with their answers.
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Coin Hunt and It's Variations

For Teachers K
Students play a game designed to give them practice identifying coin names and values. They form two lines with coins spread out in between the teams and when the teacher calls out a coin, the two in front scramble to find the specified...
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities...
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Math Center: Fishing

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, students reinforce addition and subtraction facts 0 to 12 by collaborating in a fishing game. Students fish for numbers with a magnet and create a math sentence, flipping a coin to determine the operation used....
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Max's Math Adventures

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these telling time worksheets, students read the rhyming poem about the snowball. Students keep a log of the activities they do in one hour and how many minutes each activity takes. Students then draw the hour and minute hands on the...
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The Old Lady and Probability

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice probability by playing various games associated with song There Was an Old Lady.
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Playing the LCM Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice finding the least common multiple of two numbers.  In this practice finding the least common multiple of two numbers lesson, students play head-to-head against their classmates.  Students play a version of...