Third Grade

I love adapting games that help revise the concepts Immy is learning at school and this version of the card game War is perfect for place value revision for children in the early grades. Best of all, all you need to play is a deck of cards.

A great idea to introduce division with students using Skittles and Twizzlers Pull & Peel to represent objects and equal groups.

Mastering multiplication facts is such an important skill for 3rd grade students.  As a former 4th grade teacher, I fully understand how crippling it can be for students who struggle with basic multiplication facts while trying to learn more challenging math concepts.

This exciting equivalent fractions game is a twist on the classic "Spoons" game. Learn how to play and get your FREE equivalent fractions cards to use in your classroom!

I introduce math sorting as part of my whole group lessons and also during my small groups. After students understand the concept, I start placing math sorts in the independent center. I display the following sheet at the math station

Games are an important part of math class, in my opinion. Not only are kids able to practice the skills that we have been focusing on (over and over repeatedly), but they are also doing it in a format that they find fun...and anything that adds fun to learning is a plus in my book!

If you're not making time for math games, your students are missing out! Check out these 5 math games every classroom needs to play!

There's nothing like a parent-teacher conference to inspire new deceptively educational games. That was the case with this activity.

Place Value Common Core Math Game, grades 2-5 This packet includes Common Core-aligned place value math games for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade.

here are some of the ideas for math manipulatives that people came up with. You can have parents donate the materials from home, and might even want to have some parents volunteer to make the manipulatives!

Number Puzzles help students match various models and representations of the addition problems , subtraction problems, and other numbers show. These puzzles are a great math station or math center and give students hands-on experience with sorting, classifying and categorizing second grade math concepts.

Check out this post for 15 free math games for grade 3 and up! Make multiplication, division, and fractions FUN!

Take a traditional checkers game and make it into a math checkers game!   I created a multiplication checkers board to use at our house because my daughter is struggling with memorizing her multiplication facts right now. I am planning on making more: one for addition, subtraction, and division, so stay tuned!