Work on addition skills with a free set of rainbow-themed bump-style gameboards. Teach your students to play bump once ...
Guided Math: Tools, Activities & Ideas
Fun, standards-based and age-appropriate activities and resources to help you plan smart for teaching math and teaching guided math groups.
Free Wintertime Addition Bump Game
Work on addition skills with a free set of bump-style winter-themed gameboards. Teach your students to play bump once ...
Free Grinchy Subtraction Bump Game
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students' ...
Free Dinnertime! Subtraction Bump Game
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students' ...
Free Off-Road Subtraction Bump Game
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students' ...
Free 3D Shapes Hide-n-Seek Pirate Treasure! Game
Practice describing 3D shapes with this fun hide-n-seek game for kindergarten. Students will describe a shape using ...
When to Teach Math Standards in Kindergarten
Let’s talk about when you should teach each of the math standards in kindergarten. Your curriculum guide may have it all ...
Fun Christmas Composing Teen Numbers Game for Kindergarten
Give your students lots of opportunities to explore place value concepts like composing and decomposing numbers 11-19 in ...
Free Christmas Composing Teen Numbers Game for Kindergarten
Fill your lesson plans in December with fun, standards-based learning opportunities. Here is a free download to ...
Free Roll-A-2D-Shape Activity for Kindergarten
Learn to identify 2D shapes in kindergarten with this free roll-a-shape activity. Kindergarten students need to get ...
Free Describing 2D Shapes Mini-Booklet for Kindergarten
Introduce how to describe 2D shapes by simply using dots and lines. Here is a free printable booklet to describe the ...
Free Describing Hidden 2D Shapes Game for Kindergarten
In kindergarten, students are expected to describe shapes like a circle, square, hexagon and triangle with the number of ...
Free Describing 2D Shapes Bingo Game for Kindergarten
While I think using a classic game like bingo isn't always the most effective way to teach a classroom skill - I do ...
Free 'Making 5' Addition Bingo Game for Kindergarten
Work on understanding addition sentences and composing the number five with this free bingo game for ...
18 Kindergarten Videos to Teach 2D Shapes
Here are some favorite kindergarten videos on describing and naming 2D shapes. These videos are quick and very handy to ...
Awesome Math Strategies for Kindergarten and the 6 Questions to Ask Your Small Group
Teaching math strategies in kindergarten may be easier than you think. Here are the top math strategies for kindergarten ...
How to Explain 3D Shapes to Kindergarten
People often wonder how to explain 3D shapes to kindergarten (especially when they have to be able to tell the ...
21 Creative Ways to Teach 2D Shapes in Kindergarten
Teaching shapes to kindergarten is part of many standards-based curriculums. When you teach 2D shapes, you're ...
Teach: How To Draw 2D Shapes in Kindergarten
Teaching the basics in kindergarten can go a long way. I find it key to teach the little stuff right up front in order ...
Frosted Frozen Compose Teen Numbers Game
Decompose and compose teen numbers like champs in your classroom with this fun, frozen, wintery game. This printable ...
Making 5 Fluency Ideas and Games
Making 5 is one of the basic and fundamental ideas that come from the Common Core standards in kindergarten. Students ...
How to Teach Numbers 1-10 in Kindergarten
Number sense and learning to write and use numbers 0-10 is a pretty big deal the first nine weeks of ...
Free Linking Cube Measurement Activity for Kindergarten
Here is a measurement activity for kindergarten. This free measuring activity uses a printable and some linking ...
Teach: How to Draw a Ten Frame
Teach how to draw a ten frame so that it can be used as a tool throughout the year to show groups of ten - perfect for ...
10 Activities for Describing 3D Shapes in Kindergarten
Describing 3D shapes in kindergarten is now an expectation as it is a key geometry standard. This standard focuses on ...
11 Free Addition and Subtraction Bump Games Just for Kindergarten
Work on addition and subtraction in kindergarten by playing games. Here is a collection of 11 free bump gameboards that ...
Free Describing 3D Shapes Bingo Game for Kindergarten
Work on identifying 3D shapes or describing 3D shapes with a free printable bingo game for kindergarten. Here is a ...
Decomposing and Composing Numbers - Working With Accelerated Kindergartners
We discovered why decomposing and composing numbers really is crazy important and dug into our daily schedule ...
How to Teach Decomposing and Composing Numbers
What we just explored why decomposing and composing numbers really is crazy important in kindergarten. This is part 2 ...
Decomposing Numbers - Why We Teach This in Kindergarten
Decomposing numbers means to break down numbers into their sub-parts. Common Core standards has kindergarten students ...
12 Quick Tools to Teach Sorting in Kindergarten
Let's teach kindergarteners how to sort with some creative ideas that are easy to implement. Here are sorting ...
Free Kindergarten Subtraction Game: What's the Difference
Working on subtraction has been a goal of mine in teaching math to kindergartners. This free kindergarten ...
12 Guided Math Independent Activities for the End of the Year
I love using math games to encourage practicing standards independently in kindergarten. Here is a collection of ...
Free Beginning Numbers Roll and Color Dice Game
Playing fun math games is one of my key strategies in giving kindergartners the time to practice key skills. Here ...
How to Set Up a Year-Long Math Computer Center
Set up and maintain a computer center in your classroom to support your math teaching. Let me show you how to set up a ...
How to Make a Rekenrek {tutorial}
When I began teaching with new math materials, like ten frames, my goal was to improve the number sense of my students. ...
Free Measuring Booklet and Rulers for Kindergarten
When I am teaching a skill that doesn't need to be differentiated {really} and that lends itself to exploration I try to ...
Two Reasons Why I Love Using Math Journals in Kindergarten
You can use math journals to give students opportunities to write about their thinking and ditch worksheets once ...
Learning Teen Numbers in Kindergarten
Teaching teen numbers in kindergarten using a composing and decomposing numbers approach. Students learn the meaning ...
How to Create Ten Frame Manipulatives
Speaking of planning, I am sketching out the next nine weeks of math instruction. We are beginning work over the next ...
Subtraction - Am I the Last One to Figure This Out?
Two weeks ago, I was fussily taking some photos from our math journals to share and it hit me. I was teaching my ...
Kindergarten Timed Tests - Building Fluency Within 5
Starting this quarter I want to reward my kinders with knowing they are increasing their skills by giving them a ...
Why does 10+6=16?
This year I have been using small group math instruction to guide my kinders. I've shared how its laid out and even a ...
How to Teach Addition With a Number Line as a Tool
This year I wanted to be more diligent about teaching various addition strategies as options for my students to explore ...