This page shares different activities that have been designed to do with children at home. Some of them are modified from our task page to be more home-friendly.
Please help us distribute these to anyone who might use them and share your students’ work with our community using the hashtag #YoucubedAtHome in social media.
In this activity explore ways of counting large amounts of flowers, trees, birds, people, and more in spaces and places […]
Lately, we’ve seen some lovely hopscotches made by our neighbors in sidewalk chalk for everyone to use, but what would […]
In this activity, students guess the number you are thinking of given clues. This is a fun way to build […]
Intersecting a 3D shape and a plane might seem intimidating, but a few bottles, a box cutter, and some creativity […]
This layout based on how apple trees are planted in orchards leads to some interesting explorations of area, patterns, and […]
How many times have you come across a tree and thought that tree is humongous? What do you measure with? […]
We’ve been inspired by the beautiful art many people are making on their windows with sticky notes to cheer up […]
Fractions are all around us! Walk around the house, yard and neighborhood with your child. Where do you see fractions? […]
Create a painting with sponges cut into different shapes. While painting like this, you experience the movement of rigid transformations […]
Tiling can be really beautiful and deeply mathematical. Looking at tilings we can think about the base units that make […]
This is a fun sidewalk chalk activity that gets everyone moving and having interesting conversations about numbers! Draw a number […]
We use cylinders and circles around the house all the time like cans, tortillas, and rolls of paper towels, but […]
Is there really mathematics in finger painting? Yes, of course there is! From finger discrimination and counting to systems thinking […]
As you are walking with your child in your neighborhood you can have a mathematical conversation about the numbers on […]
Mathematical games are often simple to play, but hard to master and Nim Games are no exception. You only need […]
Estimating might sound like an activity from young children, and although it is fantastic for them to estimate how many […]
Number talks, developed by Ruth Parker, are an activity you can do with your kids on a walk or in […]
Many families celebrate the arrival of spring with candy egg hunts, and these can be an opportunity for math conversations, […]
Many of the games we play to pass the time can be easily modified to integrate some math. For example, […]
Numbers come up in day to day life all the time. How can we use these moments to have a […]
One of my favorite things to do with and for my family is cook. Without our kids going to school […]
Connecting art and math this activity can be fun for the whole family! Working in the outdoor space you have, […]
This two-player game has a long history with professional mathematicians, we want you all to join in too! Take turns […]
This activity from NRich has students exploring shapes and colors. In this activity students investigate the combinations of ways they […]
In this activity, students develop their number sense and number fluency. They have an opportunity to visualize and develop their […]
This problem asks how many ways can a bunny called Leo can hop up 10 steps but, perhaps surprisingly, there […]
This activity encourages students of all ages to take a deeper look at a familiar view: right outside their window. […]
We had originally designed this activity for the younger members of the family, but we know counting on fingers is […]
Everyone is a mathematician! Make posters sharing the many aspects of your identity and add to it “and I’m a […]
In this activity we use the familiar structure of cards, but we have moved the emphasis to number sense and […]
This activity allows students an opportunity to think creatively about numbers. Students use animals to model different ways to make […]
This activity allows students to develop their number fluency and connect visuals with sums. Start with 10 dice. Roll all […]
Right now in the news, there are many articles that include graphs and other data representations. Take some time to […]
You can take a stroll through your neighborhood or a park (maintaining social distance!) and pick up leaves along the […]
This activity is an opportunity to think creatively about how to make different shapes using any size sheet of paper. […]
This activity makes space for the whole family to be creative! Together, create as many designs as possible using four […]
You can do this alone or with a group. With just one sheet of paper groups of students and families […]
Students can survey their family on a topic of their choice and make a graph describing their findings.
While sitting around the table, ask your student to figure out how many feet are under the table without looking. […]
We encourage students to expand this activity and discuss the math you see in public art AND ANYWHERE! (Really anywhere! […]
In this activity students color-code collections of circles as they look for patterns. They can do this directly on a […]
Students draw an 11×13 grid and try to find the fewest number of squares they can use to cover it […]
In this activity, students use snap cubes to make sense of parts and wholes and relate that to addition and […]
