Mathful Play
- What if we see math as intrinsically enjoyable, like art?
- How do we explore, uncover, and leverage what is fun about math in order to enhance children’s learning experience?
- How do we make math more playful and play more “mathful?”
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A Multi-sensory Mindful Counting Activity
This mindful activity starts with looking out into the world, listening, touching, and smelling all that’s different, and ends with looking within and describing a feeling. Materials: An environment to explore with multiple senses...
Listen, Count, and Guess
Counting is usually a visual activity – we look and point as we count the objects in front of us. What if we engage the sense of hearing, and make it into a listening game? This activity includes both in-person and online activities for remote...
Tracing Falling Objects with Our Bodies
Comparison is an important early childhood math concept, and in everyday life, children like to compare quantity (more or less), size (bigger or smaller), height (taller or shorter), and length (longer or shorter). In this activity, we compare the...
3D Shape Exploration
Geometry is always one of my favorite units to teach as it is so hands-on! One activity my students always love is making 3D cubes. It requires minimal materials that you may already have at home or in your classroom. This activity engages the...
Making Shapes with Resistance Bands
If you’ve ever gotten a good workout with resistance bands, you know how much it engages your muscles! Making shapes with resistance bands not only provides gross motor movement opportunities but also engages the sensory receptors in muscles....
Block Shopping
Wooden blocks are one of the most popular materials during choice time! This activity is best suited for the middle of the school year, when children need fresh ideas and a new perspective on familiar materials. It heightens the children’s...
Building Shapes with Our Bodies
In this activity, children built on their prior knowledge of geometry and created shapes with their bodies. Through teamwork and mathematical discussions, the children started with identifying and creating shapes, and ended with a delightful...
Big Dice Game
Dice games are a fun and engaging way to practice number recognition, counting, subitizing, and one-to-one correspondence. To engage the whole body, make the dice big and play movement games! All you will need to make the dice is a cube-shaped...
Events
Mathful Play Summer Series for Young Children We are early childhood teachers on summer vacation, and we are launching Mathful Play summer sessions for children ages 4 to 7 this August! Our...
Multi-sensory Engagement
Our interest in exploring Whole Body Math started with observations that math hands-on activities and games have a table-top bias - they are mostly played on table-tops while seated, in the format...
Guide to Activities
Our member teachers are collecting lessons and activities that anyone can use with children. Search here or use our categories and tags. You can also browse the full list on our Activities...