Math Toss

Mr. Wormwood, one of the characters in Roald Dahl's Matilda, is not the most trustworthy of characters. Have student groups take on the roles of car salespeople and play a game to see who can make the most profit by selling refurbished...

Find the math in recipes. Young chefs will follow a recipe and investigate the total cost for materials. They measure amounts of food necessary for the recipe and compute the per person cost.

Three, two, one...liftoff! Elevate math skills to new heights while having a blast. A great resource that combines entertainment and education for children of all ages.

Teach the four operations with decimal numbers while focusing on the algorithms. The video instructor demonstrates one example each of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with decimal numbers. She explains the steps of each...

Toss & Catch Tennis is a simple drill to practice underhand tossing and catching of a tennis ball. There is no instruction in regards to making this a lesson, but this is a good drill for practicing some strategies. Players have to...

Just as you've lined up the class to go to recess, it begins pouring rain and all chaos breaks loose. What do you do? It's time for silent ball! The rules include no talking, and you must catch the ball. If you talk, drop the ball, or...

Young scholars compare the differences in catching four different pieces of equipment. They, in groups, practice catching the items, and discuss which one was the easiest and hardest to catch, and graph their results.

This video demonstrates writing shaded areas of a pentagon as a fraction. Practice problems are available. [2:47]

This is not a activity, but four drills to practice a few skills, based on a holiday theme. Two of the games have the players practice underhand tossing, and another game has them dribbling and shooting a basketball. These seem like fun...

Here is an engaging game that encourages skip counting. In this math lesson, learners engage in a group activity which requires each group to skip count to 100 using different values.