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 AP Calculus AB, Pre-Calculus, and Statistics at Coweta High School in Coweta, OK. Over my eleven-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.
HOLIDAY-THEMED MATH ACTIVITIES
- Penguin Pentominoes Puzzle
- Borax Snowflake Christmas Ornaments
- Reindeer Logic Puzzle
- Checkered Ornament Puzzle
- 70 Creative Ideas for Celebrating Christmas in Math Class
- Math Vocabulary Christmas Ornament Project
- Decorate the Tree Christmas Puzzle
- Drawing On Our Heads
- Icosahedron Ornament Balls Tutorial
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
- Printable Venn Diagram Template
- 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
- Twos Challenge
- Printable Math Charts
- 108 Fun & Engaging Algebra 1 Activities
- Pentominoes Pig Puzzle
- Monday Must Reads: Volume 100
- Thanksgiving Mystery Tangram Puzzle
- Printable Blank Multiplication Charts
- Blank Multiplication Chart 15×15
- Blank Multiplication Chart 1-20
- Blank Multiplication Chart 1-10
- Monday Must Reads: Volume 99
- Blank Multiplication Chart 12 x 12
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
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!
- 5 Free Printable Trigonometry Posters
- Equality and Inequality Symbols Posters
- Strimko Puzzles in the Classroom
- Daily Date Magnets
- Puzzle of the Week Poster
- Modular Origami – Sonobe Classroom Display
- Unit Circle Magnets
- Trig Functions Posters
- How to Read the Periodic Table Poster
- Parts of a Radical Poster
- Roman Numerals Poster
- Parts of a Right Triangle Poster
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
- 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
- Significant Figures Ordering Cards Activity
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!
