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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Number Matching Puzzle - Multiplication
A hands-on game to play when learning about multiplying numbers.
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Number Matching Puzzle – Addition
A hands-on game to play when learning about adding larger numbers.
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Moving Mathematics Activity - Skip Counting By Twos
A fun and active way to practice counting by 2s.
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Tangram Treats - Tangram Puzzles
Have fun learning about shapes with a set of 36 tangram task cards separated into three levels, along with two tangram cut-out templates.
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What's it Worth? - Money Activity (US Currency)
A game to play when learning how to add currency.
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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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4-Digit Place Value Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of place value to the thousands place.
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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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4-Digit Number of the Day Worksheet
A 4-digit place value worksheet to represent the number of the day in different ways.
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I Have, Who Has? – Complementary and Supplementary Angles Game
Play a whole-class game to review complementary and supplementary angles.
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Two-Digit Place Value Bingo Game (Digits and Craft Sticks)
32 bingo cards using place value to 99.
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Describing Measurements - Memory Game
A memory game to play in the classroom when developing suitable language to describe different measurements.
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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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3D Shapes and Their Attributes - Puzzles
Explore the names and properties of some of the most common 3D shapes with this set of 8 puzzles.
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Diving Board Bonanza! - Chance Game
A game for students to play when learning about probability.
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Skip Counting by 9s Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when learning to skip count by 9.
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Musical Equations Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Value Your Place Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Ed and Dale's Heads and Tails - Chance Game
A fun game of chance for students to play when learning about probability.
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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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Friends of 30 Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when matching friends of 30.
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Combinations of 20 - Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when learning combinations of 20.
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Chance PowerPoint - Level 2
An engaging 30-slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about chance and probability.
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