Math Warm-ups Teaching Resources
Download math warm-up activities, worksheets, and more to engage your students and ready them for the actual lesson in this teacher-created resource collection!
The math warm-ups in this collection include puzzles, task cards, games, sorting activities, and more. These math warm-ups give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, and computation strategies.
What Are Math Warm-Ups?
Math warm-ups are short, low-stakes activities that students do at the beginning of a math class to review and reinforce key concepts, skills and problem-solving strategies. Engaging math warm-ups can also encourage students to explore number combinations, place value, patterns, and other important mathematical concepts.
The goal is to engage students' minds and help them transition into math mode in your classroom while preparing them for the main lesson.
What Are Examples of Math Warm-Ups?
Looking to add a warm-up activity to your math lessons each day? You can keep it simple with quick math problems, reviewing formulas, working on word problems, or solving puzzles.
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2-Digit Place Value Game - Interactive Slide Deck
Review various first- and second-grade place value concepts with an interactive daily place value warmup.
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Math Warm-Ups Interactive PowerPoint - Grade 2
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm-up activities for Grade 2 students across the mathematics curriculum.
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Fall Math Worksheets - Addition to 99
Celebrate the coming of Fall and practice adding 2-digit numbers up to 99 with a set of four Fall color-by-number worksheets.
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Target Number Math Warm-up Activity
A great math warm-up activity where students brainstorm number sentences that equal a 'target number'.
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Place Value Work Mat
Practice place value concepts with this work mat for students.
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Math Word Problem Match-Up Game - Basic Multiplication and Division
Twenty word problem cards to use in the classroom when learning to differentiate between multiplication and division situations.
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3-Digit Number of the Day Worksheet
A 3-digit place value worksheet to represent the number of the day in different ways.
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Equation Tails Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Dodging Equations Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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3D Shapes Dominoes
A set of dominoes to help students reinforce their understanding of 3-D figures.
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Race to 10,000 - Number Pattern Game
A fun game for students to play to practice place value and mentally adding multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000.
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5-Digit Place Value Warm-Up - Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44-slide interactive PowerPoint to use when learning about place value to 5-digits.
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Interactive Multiple Choice PowerPoint Template - Mathematics
Create an interactive math warm-up, review or assessment activity with this 11-slide PowerPoint template.
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Equivalent Fractions Pizza Bingo - Whole, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8
32 different bingo cards to practice finding equivalent fractions involving 1, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8.
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Decomposing Numbers – Matchup Activity
A set of decomposing number cards to create number sentences when grouping in tens and ones.
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Counting On Addition Dominoes
A set of addition dominoes to use in the classroom when applying counting on strategies.
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Division Facts to 12 - Bingo
32 different bingo cards using division.
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Musical Equations Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Know Your Measurements Board Game
A fun measurement game for students to play when applying their knowledge of length, mass, capacity and time.
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Subitizing Dice - Numbers 1 to 9
Subitizing is the process of immediately recognizing how many items are in a small group.
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Multiplication Facts 0–12 Bingo
32 different bingo cards for students to practice their multiplication facts to 12.
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Aliens in a Spaceship Counting & Subitizing Game
Download a fun, hands-on game for teaching kids to count and use one-to-one correspondence or to subitize.
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Skip Counting for Multiplication Interactive Activity
Teach multiplication using the skip counting strategy with this fun, interactive digital teaching resource!
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Rainbow Facts Zero-Tail Game
Use this fun two-digit addition strategy math game to reinforce the concept of "compatible numbers."
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- Math Warm-ups Bingo
- Math Warm-ups Worksheets
- Math Warm-ups Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Dominoes
- Math Warm-ups Instructional Slide Decks
- Math Warm-ups Templates
- Math Warm-ups Active Games
- Math Warm-ups Matchup Games
- Math Warm-ups Board Games
- Math Warm-ups Card Games
- Math Warm-ups Task Cards
- Math Warm-ups Logic Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Interactive Activities
- Math Warm-ups Dice Games
- Math Warm-ups Tarsia Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Flashcards
- Math Warm-ups Sorting Activities
- Math Warm-ups Posters
- Math Warm-ups Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Math Warm-ups for Pre-K
- Math Warm-ups for Kindergarten
- Math Warm-ups for 1st Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 2nd Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 3rd Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 4th Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 5th Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 6th Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 7th Grade