Math Center Activities Teaching Resources
Bring your math centers to life with math center activities created by teachers and rigorously reviewed by the expert educators on the Teach Starter team! You'll find math games, math printables, and more for students from kindergarten through elementary school.
Whether it's a set of counting clip cards, task cards for practicing time, a multiplication hidden picture, an interactive puzzle, or any of the other hundreds of unique math center games and activities in this collection, every single resource has been vetted to ensure it's ready for your classroom and your centers!
What Is a Math Center?
In an elementary classroom, a subject-focused center is a place within the room where students can work in small groups or semi-independently or with a small group to review information or a skill they have learned. These engaging spaces give teachers space to differentiate instruction for students and also allow learners to problem solve and practice working independently or with others.
In particular, a math center is a special space in the classroom that allows students to explore new math concepts so they can increase understanding and develop their math skills. These are also sometimes called math learning centers.
Students often work with math manipulatives in math centers, and they may work on a variety of concepts, from fact fluency to place value to geometry. The topic all depends on the math lessons on tap in your classroom!
Math centers may give students a chance to work in mixed groups or may work with academically alike groups or with students with similar or different learning styles or personalities.
How Do Math Centers Help Students?
Like writing and reading centers, math centers give students a chance to try out new concepts and apply the skills and strategies that they've learned in the classroom. As they say, practice makes perfect, and math centers provide students with that practice time.
Math centers have been linked to students' level of confidence in their abilities as young mathematicians, which is linked to their success in the classroom!
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Rolling for Cash — Printable Counting Coins Game
Print a customizable money game for kids that requires addition and skip counting skills to count coins.
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Perimeter and Area Digital Puzzles
Give students practice finding the area and perimeter of squares and rectangles with these digital area and perimeter puzzles.
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Telling Time Cards
Identify the time on the analog clock and use a clothespin to mark the correct digital time.
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Telling Time to the Nearest Five Minutes - Interactive Activities
Read different clock faces to the nearest 5 minutes.
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Count and Graph – New Year's Edition
Celebrate the new year by counting festive images and notating their totals as a bar graph.
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All About Hexagons Mini Booklet
A mini booklet to assist younger students in learning about hexagons.
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Making 10 Number Bonds - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice the addition strategy of making 10.
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Fractions and Decimals Matching Game
Practice matching equivalent fractions and decimals with this set of 15 cards that focus on tenths and hundredths place values.
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Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture - Addition Task Cards
Practice adding single and double-digit numbers in your classroom with this set of 32 picture reveal task cards.
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Ten in the Bed - Counting Activity
A fun, hands-on number rhyme activity to help students sequence numbers and count forward and backward from 1–10.
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Skip Counting by 2s Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when skip counting by 2s from 0 to 100.
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Skip Counting Puzzles
Practice skip counting and identifying multiples of numbers with printable skip counting puzzles for kids.
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Improper Fractions Activity Cards
Provide these improper fractions activity cards to your students to give them a variety of ways to practice converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.
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Ten Frame Printable Templates
Use these printable ten frames in various math lessons to reinforce number sense and other essential skills.
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Decomposing 2-Digit Numbers Match-Up Activity
Help children decompose 2-digit numbers by identifying the place value of the tens and ones with this matching activity.
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Math Word Problem Task Cards - Multiplication and Long Division
Solve multi-step multiplication and long division word problems with a set of printable math task cards.
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Converting Units of Time Match-Up Game
Convert time units, including seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months by completing a match-up activity.
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Time and Elapsed Time - Task Cards
Solve a variety of time and elapsed time problems with a set of Elapsed Time to the Hour and Half-Hour task cards.
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Group It Many Ways – Multiplication Activity
Promote hands-on learning with this activity, where students will practice making equal groups to represent multiplication.
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Multiplication With Equal Groups Spinner Activity
Use this hands-on activity with your students and help them make equal groups to represent multiplication problems.
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Color by Number – Repeated Addition and Multiplication
Guide your students to connect repeated addition with multiplication by completing this color-by-code multiplication worksheet.
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Mystery Pattern Grids – Multiplication
Students solve multiplication facts, interpret coordinate planes, and draw shapes to reveal a mystery picture.
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Multi-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Task Cards
Solve multi-step addition and subtraction word problems with a set of printable math task cards.
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2-Digit Subtraction Using Bar Models- Task Cards
Review and assess your students’ subtraction skills with a set of 2-digit subtraction task cards focusing on the bar model strategy.
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- Math Center Activities Dominoes
- Math Center Activities Templates
- Math Center Activities Sorting Activities
- Math Center Activities Card Games
- Math Center Activities Dice Games
- Math Center Activities Mazes
- Math Center Activities Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Math Center Activities Bingo
- Math Center Activities Mini Book
- Math Center Activities Flashcards
- Math Center Activities Tarsia Puzzles
- Math Center Activities Posters
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- Math Center Activities Logic Puzzles
- Math Center Activities Connect the Dots
- Math Center Activities Escape Room Games
- Math Center Activities Word Searches
- Math Center Activities Tracing Worksheets
- Math Center Activities Labels Signs Decorations
- Math Center Activities Coloring Pages
- Math Center Activities 100 Chart
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