What to do:

Games & Activities

Online

• Sheppard's Software

• Happy Numbers Website or App

• Splash Learn Website or App

Hands-on

• Puzzles to build analytical thinking and problem-solving

• Number hunts (looking for amounts of things in everyday life)

• LEGOs or Blocks with conversation about numbers

• Dice Games

  • Example: Roll three dice together and add the numbers together--highest total wins each round

• Number-based card games like Uno, Go Fish

• Math Board and Card Games:

  • Splat!

  • Math Island

What to watch

• Number Blocks (Youtube or Netflix)

• Jack Hartmann Youtube

• How to Be Good at Math

What are the big things Kindergarten and 1st graders should be able to do in Math?

Kindergarten

• Count to 100 out loud

• Basic addition and subtraction

• Put together 10's and 1's (i.e. 3 and 10 is 13)

• Name common 2D and 3D shapes

1st Grade

• Read & write numbers 20-120

• One-digit addition and subtraction

  • Example: 8+5 or 9-4

• Understand place value

  • Example: in the number 79, 7 is in the tens place and 9 is in the ones place

• Comparing numbers

• Simple fractions, measurements, and analog clocks