Math tasks

A blog about teaching ideas and free resources, focusing on kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

These free, printable Mental Math Worksheets are stimulating, but not too difficult, and will give your kids the confidence they need in math!

Teaching your students how to add and subtract can be really hard! These addition task cards help make learning to add fun and engaging!

Tweet Last spring when I was doing the Mathematical Mindsets book study, I wrote a lot about rich mathematical tasks that all students can access but that also keep going or growing for students who need more challenge. Since then, I have been on a quest to add more tasks like this to my repertoire and recently I cam across one that I just have to share with the world. I first heard about Yohaku in this month's issue of Teaching Children Mathematics. I was sitting in a waiting room while…

Free printable math mazes for students learning their multiplication facts. Math facts are difficult to master, and sometimes children grow weary of practicing with flashcards and other drills. These math mazes are sure to provide your children with a little fun while working on key multiplication facts. Additionally, these multiplication mazes help your students work on order of operations and key logic skills.

Practice identifying before and after numbers 10-30 with this printable math worksheet.

This year, at a Math Lead in-service at our Education Centre, I was introduced to 3-Act Math Tasks. They've engaged my students so much that they are now a

Try these 4 creative teaching ideas for middle school math task cards. These math problems make learing more fun and engaging than a traditional middle school math worksheet. Whether you teach 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, or 8th grade math, these task card ideas are a perfect fit for the classroom.

Free, printable low floor high ceiling problems used in a co-op class setting for kids between the ages of 9 and 14. Based on math problems from youcubed.org.

There are so many ways to use math task cards in upper elementary and middle school. This game uses math task cards with a bit of a twist!