Mrs. McGowan's First Grade           Spring Lake, NJ

Math, Math, and More Math!

Would you like some ideas for enrichment, reinforcement, fun math learning for your first graders?  Well, you have come to the right page!  Several teachers are sharing their classroom tested ideas for small group (and hopefully independent) work.  Please send your ideas too!

Online Activities 

Center Activites

Online Math Activities

TELLING TIME
Here are some terrific games to practice telling time.  Start with an easy one:  What Time Is it?  Once you're warmed up, try these:

Compare Numbers: Tell Time With Willie the Watchdog

Stop the Clock to Hour and Half Hour

Stop the Clock to 15 Minutes

Stop the Clock to 5 Minutes

CHALLENGE GAME!
Read the Time and Stop the Clock

FROM CLASS WEBSITES

Lanise Jacoby's Math Time

• Oochina on the Farm
•  Math Riddles
• My Calculator
• Math Tic Tac Toe Squares
• Math Baseball
• Soccer Shootout
• One False Move
• Change Maker
• Operation Order Algebra Game
• Dare to Square
• Mad Math Minutes
• Two Minute Warning
  

• Sum Sense-addition

• Sum Sense-subtraction
• Online Maths Activities for Kids - Base Ten Count
• Matho:Addition Hidden Picture
• Place Values
• Ordinal Numbers
• Adding three numbers
• Complete a Numerical Sentence - Subtraction
• Inverse Relationship of Addition and Subtraction
  

Math Center Activites

Fact Family Book from Tompkins Family

Fact Family Cards from Wendy Petti's Math Cats

Marcia's Magnetic Graphs (over 100 ideas here!)

Lots More Ideas About Fact Families

This is from Marcia Goudie:
I have a plastic jar (peanut butter sized) with special lid that opens easily. Once a week I send it home with a different student. They return it on Monday filled with any kind of item (non-perishable). Some suggestions are: dry noodles, beans, pennies, stones legos....anything that will fit inside. They must count the items before they bring the jar back and give me the amount on a little paper. The jar is left on a "math" table. When students have free time they can go, look at the jar, and make an estimation of the amount in the jar. On Friday we open the jar and compare the amount with the list. The one closest to the right amount gets to take the jar home....

To see a printable version of the estimation recording page, click on the pdf file listed below.  You'll need Acrobat Reader.  Get a free download.

Estimation Station Recording Page

These ideas are shared by Marci McGowan:

• Give a 100 grid and have students subtract a certain number from 100.   They color in the differences and then have to explain the pattern that's created when chart is finished.
• Students make up their own word problems for others to solve using classmate or book character names.
• Teacher writes, on paper or chalkboard,  problems with missing addends for students to solve:

___ + ____  + _____  =  15

or  ____  +  _____  - _____ = 12

or    9  =  9
  They would have to write something like
10 - 4 + 3 = 14 + 4 - 9
This computation all relates to algebra and the kids love it. 

• Another favorite is making the same value with different coins.  We do this as a whole class every day orally and write a few on the board.  I  attached magnets to back of coins and students can make the amount using the magnetic coins or write on paper chart.  Once that's done, they use the chart and write questions about the info (Which way used the fewest coins?  Which way will make your pocket the heaviest?)

• Patterns with the calendar.  These I do with interested kids in small group.  Things like "If today is Tuesday the 4th what date will it be on Wed.  two weeks from now?"
  So it's 4 + 7 + 7 + 1 = 19  or 4 + 8 + 7 = 19
  Students have to know patterns of plus 7 and plus 8 on the calendar.