ENGAGING AND FUN MATH ACTIVITIES
I’m Sarah Carter, a high school math teacher who passionately believes math equals love. Through this blog, I’m on a mission to equip other teachers to create inviting and engaging classrooms where learning mathematics is fun.
I currently teach Pre-Calculus and Statistics at Coweta High School in Coweta, OK. Over my ten-year teaching career, I have taught both math and science at the secondary level. If you want to know more about my career in education, check out my About Me page.
FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
- Left Center Right Dice Game
- First Day of School Activities 2021
- 30+ First Week of School Activities
- Let’s Make Squares Activity
- Getting to Know You Dice Activity
- Master Designer
- Save Fred Activity for the First Week of School
- Ink Stain Matching Activity
- Make Six Puzzle – Number Challenge
- Lonesome Llama Activity
- Survival in the Desert Groupwork Task
- Two Buckets Puzzle
MATH TEACHING RESOURCE INDEX
To help make it easier for math teachers to find resources for teaching various mathematical concepts, I have started to compile a math teaching resource index.
For each topic below, I have put together an index of all the resources I have created for the topic as well as links to resources from other teachers. These additional resources are currently a work in progress.
MOST POPULAR ACTIVITIES
- Make 30 Puzzles
- Free Printable Multiplication Charts
- 30+ First Week of School Activities
- Exponent Rules Match-Up Activity
- Let’s Make Squares Activity
- Exponents Chart (Powers of 2 to 9)
- 97 Free Printable Tangram Puzzles
- Twos to Nines Challenges
- Venn Diagram Template with Guess My Rule Cards
- Free Printable Farkle Score Sheet (with Scoring Guidelines)
- The 5-4-3-2-1 Challenge
- Combining Like Terms Cut and Paste Activity
MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS
- 2022-2023 Free Printable Lesson Plan Book
- Domino Pyramid Puzzle
- Chess Cube Puzzle
- Left Center Right Dice Game
- Tenzi Data Collection Activity for Comparing Data Sets
- Equality and Inequality Symbols Posters
- High School Math Classroom Decorations 2021-2022
- Missing Angles Notes
- 52 Fun End of Year Activities for Math Class
- Engaging Students with Hands-On Data Collection Activities – OCTM 2022
- Embracing Joy in Math Class – OCTM 2022 Keynote
- Finding Common Denominators of Rational Expressions Activity
If you’re looking for a traditional blog reading experience, I recommend checking out my BLOG page. You can find it by following the previous link or by clicking on the Blog Tab at the top of the page. This page will list all of my blog posts (over 1300 of them!) in chronological order with the most recent blog post first.
This blog started as a way for me to make sense of my student teaching experiences in the middle school and high school math classroom. It’s evolved over the past decade to become a way to share free resources for engaging and fun math activities with teachers around the world.
Looking for resources for a specific math teaching topic? I recommend navigating the blog using the tabs at the top of the page or by using the search box. You can easily find and read all of my posts about polynomials, puzzles, or posters this way.
FREE PRINTABLE MATH RESOURCES
- Free Printable Greek Alphabet
- Free Printable Factors Chart 1-100
- Foldable Math Reference Chart
- Prime Numbers Chart
- Exponents Chart (Powers of 2 to 9)
- Powers of 2 Chart
- Trig Identities Cheat Sheet [Free Printable]
- Prime Factorization Foldable
- Prime Numbers Below 100 Chart
- Grouping Symbols Reference Chart & Poster
- Mathematician’s Toolbox Foldable for INBs
PRINTABLE MATH PUZZLES
I am a passionate proponent of incorporating puzzles into the mathematics classroom. Over the past five years, I have compiled a collection of hundreds of free printable puzzles that have been used in math classrooms around the world with students ranging from elementary school to high school as well as adults! You can find out more about how to access these free puzzles on my puzzles page!
- Parts of a Whole – An Equilateral Triangle Puzzle
- Cross Solitaire Puzzle
- Pentasquares Puzzle
- X Marks the Spot Puzzle
- Pyramid Solitaire Puzzle
- H Puzzle from Harry Lindgren
- T Puzzle
- O, T, T, F, F, S, S… Sequence Puzzle
- M Puzzle
- Quadratic Area Puzzles
- Shape Grid Puzzle
- Tic Tac Toe Challenge Puzzle
FREE PRINTABLE MATH POSTERS AND CLASSROOM DECORATIONS
My high school math classroom is my happy place, and I love decorating it to display my love of math to my students. I have created many math posters over the years that I am sharing here on my blog. I recommend checking out my entire math poster collection – ten years’ worth of math posters!
- Daily Date Magnets
- Modular Origami – Sonobe Classroom Display
- How to Read the Periodic Table Poster
- Parts of a Radical Poster
- Roman Numerals Poster
- Estimate Before You Calculate Poster
- Naming Polynomials Poster
- Math Joke of the Week Posters
- Powers Posters – Powers of 2 to 9
- Math Alphabet Podium Name Sign
- Google Classroom Poster
- 12 Basic Functions Posters
FUN AND CREATIVE MATH PRACTICE ACTIVITIES
I love creating fun, interactive, and hands-on activities. Be sure to check out some of these activities while you are here!
- Unit Circle Bingo Game
- Mean Median Mode & Range Challenge Activity
- Make Your Own Question Stack Template
- Set and Interval Notation Dry Erase Template
- The Great Quadrant Guessing Game
- Odd One Out Coterminal Angles Activity
- Build a Function Activity
- Leveled Practice Cards Activity for Absolute Value Equations
- Translating Algebra Around the Room Activity
- Literal Equations Connect 4 Activity
- One Variable Inequalities Card Sort Activity
- Arithmetic with Significant Figures Task Cards
GAMES
Looking to infuse some fun into your math classroom? Check out these free printable games! You and your students are sure to have a ton of fun!
- Is It Divisible Dice Game
- Pi Day Dice Challenge
- Proof! Math Game Review
- Tic-Tac-Toe Squared
- Teaching Students to Play the Train Game
- TIGO Puzzles
- Absolute Zero Card Game Review
- Make a Million Place Value Game
- Traffic Lights Game
- The Game of SET
- Sprouts
- Blocko Game for Practicing Experimental and Theoretical Probability
FREE MATH FOLDABLES
I used interactive notebooks with my students during the first six years of my teaching career. As a result, I have created many free printable math foldables that I am sharing with you to use in your own classroom!
