Coin Hunt and It's Variations

Kick-start children's education with this pre-school math unit. Offering 31 different hands-on learning activities that develop young mathematicians' pattern and shape recognition, basic number sense, and much more, this is a must-have...

Bring math home with this interative estimating instructional activity! Scholars make educated guesses about the number of six household items: crayons in a crayon box, keys on a key ring, coins in a piggy bank, trees in the yard,...

Students participate in a logic activity in which they identify items. In this logic activity, students work in groups as they play a questioning game that is similar to "Twenty Questions." They ask questions and rule out items in a...

Pupils play logic and strategy games with pennies. In this pennies worksheet, students play one game called 'From counting to arithmetic', and one called 'Counting and mental math'.

Ever played 20 Questions? A similar game helps young learners practice asking and answering yes-or-no questions. Spread out several objects, preferably all similar with slight variations (buttons or coins would work well). A leader...

Students make different variations of file card bridges and predict how much weight it will hold. In this file card bridges lesson plan, students put file cards between books in different ways and predict how many pennies it will hold.

Students listen to the book Mouse Shapes and identify the shapes in the book as it is being read. In this shapes instructional activity, students identify the shapes in the book, and then play with cut out shapes that they can hold in...

Students read the book Money Madness and are introduced to the concept of money and how money gets complicated.  In this money lesson, students play the bartering game and use a bartering system to acquire the items on a list. 

Gather your class to listen to a reading of the book Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh. After  listening, learners cut out their own shapes and make a shape book.