21 May
Engaging Math Activities for the Summer Break
Below is a growing collection of resources I designate as "Summer Math Activities". These deal with various (mostly non-computational) aspects of early mathematics and are suitable for young children. There is no good reason not to try these activities at any other time of the year. During summertime, with the kids out of school or kindergarten, it may be more urgent to occupy them in a meaningful way.
- Parity Games
- First proofs: forming polygons with matches or pins
- Braids, beginning combinatorics, task distribution
- Filling a matrix with 0s and 1s
- TicTacToe in four disguises
- Breaking chocolate bars and counting
- Puzzles solved by modified representation
- Candy game: how to divide candy evenly
- Cutting and counting strings: multiplication and addition
- A number sieve
- Graph and its complementary graphs
- Coloring cubes and tetrahedra
- Meeting acquaintances in groups
- Math Magic with digits of integers
- Splitting numbers in two groups and summing up the differences
- The magic of 1: always climbs to the top
- Combining 3- and 4-pyramids and visualizing their volume
- Unraveling the secret of ISBN
- Three Checkers Game one a One Row Board
- Jumping on a Clock Face
- Dominoes and Chessboard Activities
- Fibonacci Numbers Magic
- Matchsticks Puzzles
- Word Problems with Percents