ABC and 123: A Learning Collaborative: Christmas Holiday Math Games & Teaching Tips

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Christmas Holiday Math Games & Teaching Tips

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Shared From Way Over Here has her girls busy counting and graphing do-a-dot ornaments.



Free Homeschool Printables featured a Build a Christmas Tree game from our very own Confessions of a Homeschooler.


Growing Kinders has a great explanation of their favorite math centers.


Growing Kinders also put together a list of favorite holiday themed units, one of them focuses on math.

Homeschool Parent suggested simple math sorting activities using the bows from gift wrap.


Mrs. Siravo's 2nd Grade Class practiced double digit addition with regrouping using this Christmas Tree Math game.


Let's Play Math shares a link to an advent calendar that encourages one math game a day from now until Christmas.

Christmas Unit Study has a great list of suggestions for teaching math concepts while sticking to a holiday theme. Ideas include: measuring gifts, estimating how much wrap is necessary, recording North Pole temperatures, and more!

Heidisong's Resource has many great thematic activites for math, writing, reading, and more. Check out the count by 10's Tree Hats or the number matching trees. Her post includes the free download for the activity.

1 comment:

  1. I love these ideas!!!! Thanks for sharing... doing tree craft today...works perfect!

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