Math lessons can be fun and engaging for all students. Have you ever sat through a boring math lesson that never seemed to end? Plan ahead for a fun math lesson and remind your students what exciting event they can look forward to. Your kids will enjoy math lessons more when they’re having fun too.
Math Lessons Need to Be Fun
Math can become a boring subject for students. Create a buy-in for students to actually like math lessons. You could celebrate a holiday, make a math project, or have engaging and interactive lessons with independence. Whatever you choose to do, make it more fun.
How to Make Math Lessons More Fun
Celebrate a Holiday
Think about what special days you can celebrate with your students. Making memories in Math class can be special and enjoyable for all students. Plan a fun day where the students can learn about a holiday and do math activities aligned to their grade level skills. The monthly math packets are perfect for sharing themes with your students and covering all the grade level math skills at the same time.
Make a Math Project
Having students complete math projects in class is a great way to work on problem solving skills as well as math skills. Create a Symme-tree art project with Geometry, or build a math board game project. A good rule of thumb for math projects is to try to complete at least one math project a quarter with your students. Watch your students have fun making projects and learning math too.
Engaging and Interactive
Make your math lessons more engaging with independent practice. Have your students be actively engaged with math centers or math stations in your classroom. Students will gain independence by completing differentiated activities in groups. Completing different tasks for students is a great way to practice and apply grade level math skills.
Additional Math Lessons Tips for Fun
Some common misconceptions for planning fun math lessons are:
- “All math lessons have to be fun.”
- “I don’t have time for fun math lessons.”
- “I don’t know where to find fun math lessons.”
You don’t have to make all math lessons fun. There will always be some math lessons that are less fun than others. Try to plan in a couple math lessons a month that are fun for your kids if you are short on time. If you don’t know where to find any fun math lessons, the Teaching Math and More shop has plenty of fun math lessons to choose from.
Make Math Lessons More Fun
Here’s a list of fun math lessons that are ready to print and use today.
- Math Stations
- Monthly Math Skills Packets
- Tessellation Math Project
- Symmetry Math Project
- Math Vocabulary Centers
