Family Math

A child plays with a tangram made out of a cereal box.

Five Out-of-the-Box Math Activities You Can Do with Cereal Boxes

Kids love chowing down on cereal, leaving many households swimming in empty cereal boxes. But there’s no need for those boxes to head to the recycling pile immediately! Try repurposing them to use in these five easy activities that also help boost math skills.

Colorful cutouts shaped like fish, each labelled with a number from one to 10, are lined up on a wooden table.

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: contando con pececitos

En esta manualidad, los niños practicarán contar del uno al diez con la ayuda de 10 pececitos coloridos.

Family Math Activity: Counting with Fishes

In this hands-on craft activity, children will practice counting from one to 10 using colorful fishes.

Mother and daughter walking in the forest

Three Outdoor Activities for Kids to Practice Sorting and Creating Sets with Nature

Things from nature like pinecones, sticks, leaves, flowers, rocks, shells and acorns are just waiting to be used to develop kids' math skills. Here are three simple ways you can use them to tap into your child’s mathematical thinking outdoors.

little girl playing with Cardboard Box, into her new house.

Four Easy Ways to Recycle Household Materials and Play with Math

Did you ever think you could help your child practice graphing, counting, sorting, identifying shapes and making patterns with old boxes and bottle tops? It's easier than you think!

Vanilla and chocolate sandwich cookies with a swirly top sit in a small plastic container.

What’s Your Family’s Favorite Cookie? Count, Compare and Analyze with a Tasty Survey

Cookies are a great start for a survey that not only teaches math — but also tastes good! Using store-bought, homemade or a mix of both, your child can survey family and friends over which cookie is the best, and practice counting, comparing and analyzing data.

A sheet of blue paper with colorful cut outs of different shapes on it surrounded by crayons and a pair of green scissors.

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: aprendan a clasificar con figuras geométricas

En esta actividad manual, los niños practican clasificar un grupo de objetos de varias maneras.

Family Math Activity: Sorting with Shapes

In this hands-on activity, children practice sorting a group of items in many different ways.

Close up of a person's hands making snack boxes with fruit, nuts and sandwiches.

Math is All Around Us: Simple, Everyday Games to Practice Creating Sets and Sorting with Kids

Here are three simple ways to tap into your child’s curiosity, turn daily tasks into playful games and begin to show your child that math is everywhere and it helps us in so many ways throughout the day!

A small child smiles as she reads a book in a grassy place.

How Two Brazilian American Kids Are Inspiring Little Ones to Love Math and Reading

More than just engaging children in everyday math, the book “Lia & Luís: Who Has More?” shows young people of color, or who grew up in a multilingual homes, characters who are like them.

A water bottle with sparkly blue water stands alongside colorful plastic blocks in two towers and two post-its labeled "stands" and "falls."

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: un divertido experimento de lanzar botellas

Esta actividad matemática de lanzar botellas introduce el análisis de datos de una manera fácil y divertida para los estudiantes pequeñitos.

Family Math Activity: Fun Bottle Flipping Experiment

This bottle flipping math activity introduces data analysis in a fun and easy way for young learners.

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