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When our students master basic math skills in preschool, Kindergarten, and first grade they create a strong foundation for the years of math to come, which is essential for their success.

We know that students need to work on:

  • number sense,
  • one to one correspondence,
  • early geometry skills,
  • how to measure and collect data,
  • early algebraic thinking,
  • and basic addition and subtraction concepts and facts.

And on top of all that, they need problem solving skills, analytical skills, and reasoning skills.

But superseding the list of standards they have to know, we also have the unique opportunity to help them fall in love with math. As their first teachers, we can show them math is fun, math is engaging, and math is exciting.

So we do math with animals and creepy crawlies. And we do math activities themed for each holiday. And we offer our kiddos ice cream and popcorn math projects.

Which sets them up for a lifetime of looking forward to math. To be excited to do math and solve problems that come their way.

To ensure you have everything you need to teach your students these foundational math skills AND help them love math, I've collected my best math resources all in one spot.

No need to dig around and search Pinterest for hours. Bookmark this page and come back often to see what new activities I've added that you and your students will both love.

If you can’t find a resource that you would LOVE to have for your classroom, Contact me and I would be happy to make it for you.

Math Activities

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Counting and Number Sense Title
Insect Counting Mats freebie comes with insect counting mats for numbers 1 through 20. In addition there are five pages of insect cards.
Christmas Match-Up Bundle
Spider Counting Mats is the perfect free printable to be added to your math centers. This activity is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Spider Counting Mats
100 Yummy Things is the perfect addition to your 100th day of school celebrations. This free printable will encourage your students to practice counting to 100. It's perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
100 Yummy Things
Valentine's Day Skip Counting Math Printable is a fun addition to your math centers. Perfect for math skip counting review! This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Valentine's Skip Counting
Zoo First to 20 and First to 50 Math Game is a great way for students to practice one to one correspondence, counting, and addition. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. 
Zoo First to 20 and 50
Monster Counting Emergent Reader is the perfect, hands-on addition to your math or literacy centers anytime of the year. This activity is perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students. 
Monster Counting
Matching Numbers with Ice Cream includes nine pages of ice cream scoops, numbers four through 20. Each ice cream cone has a number written on it and each ice cream scoop has two to four dice. Students will count the number of dots on each dice and then match it to the correctly numbered cone.
Matching Number with Ice Cream
There is something magically when students find learning FUN! I think that is the ultimate goal for all teachers and parents. One of my favorite ways to do this is by incorporating themed centers into the classroom, like this Apple Number Match math center. My students are always so excited for their centers that sometimes I wonder if they even know that they are doing work and learning.
Apple Number Match
DIY Farm Number Book is a great way for preschool and kindergarten students to practice fine motor skills, one to one correspondence, and number formation. This is a perfect addition to a farm theme or unit.
DIY Farm Number Book
Spider Counting Sensory Activity is a fun Halloween themed interactive sensory bin. Students will practice their fine motor skills by picking out spiders from their webs and placing in the numbered ice trays. This activity is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Spider Counting Sensory Activity
Christmas Tree Number Mats is the perfect addition to your math centers this holiday season.  This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Christmas Tree Number Mats
Snowman Number Match Printable is a great addition to your math centers this winter season. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.  
Snowman Number Match
Mitten Snowball Counting Activity is a fun, hands-on way for students to review numbers and practice one to one correspondence. This fine motor center is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Mitten Snowball Counting Activity
Heart Matching Puzzle is the perfect way to have your students review the alphabet, numbers, sight words, or addition and subtraction. This easy, DIY activity is perfect for toddlers, preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. 
Heart Matching Puzzle
Make learning fun with this themed Flowers Number Match-Up. Your elementary age students will love this fun spring themed math center! Perfect for math stations or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Flower Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun ice cream themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups all year long. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Ice Cream Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun popcorn themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups all year long. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Popcorn Initial Sound and Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun play dough themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups all year long. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Play Dough Initial Sound and Numbers Match-Ups
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/school-clip-cards-printable/">School Clip Cards</a></b>
School Clip Cards
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/penguin-number-counting-craft-activity/">Penguin Number Counting Craftivity</a></b>
Penguin Number Counting Craftivity
Cookie Counting Clip Cards is great math activity for students to practice numbers and counting anytime of the year.  This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Cookie Counting Clip Cards
Make learning fun with these Christmas Match-Ups Bundle. This includes themed centers for Initial Sounds, Middle Sounds, Ending Sounds, Blends, Digraphs, and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Christmas themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups this Christmas. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Christmas Match-Up Bundle
Make learning fun with these Christmas Match-Ups Bundle. This includes themed centers for Initial Sounds, Middle Sounds, Ending Sounds, Blends, Digraphs, and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Christmas themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups this Christmas. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Snowman Match-Up Bundle
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/number-posters/">Number Posters</a></b>
Number Posters
This Gingerbread Numbers Puzzles helps students to have a strong number sense to promote confidence in numbers as they build a foundation in math skills.
Gingerbread Numbers Puzzles
This Christmas Number Match-Up helps students to develop confidence in number sense so they build a strong foundation in math skills.
Christmas Number Match-Up
Numbers and counting is such a fun topic to teach! There are tons of great manipulatives to use and it's a great way to give good base knowledge to kids that will use it all their lives. Here are some of the best number sense activities for little learners! I hope you enjoy!
Number Sense Learning Activities
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun St. Patrick's Day themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
St. Patrick's Day Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/swat-the-bug-learning-activity/">Swat the Bug Learning Activity</a></b>
Swat the Bug Learning Activity
Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning more about the apple! This pack is perfect for science, language arts, and math centers in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting student activities. Celebrate Fall with apple themed center student worksheets. Students will learn more about apples using puzzles, worksheets, clip cards, and subtraction mats. This pack is great for homeschoolers, hands-on kids activities, and to add to your unit studies! Teachers will receive the complete unit for Autumn apple science, math, and literacy activities to help teach about apples to your lower elementary students!
Apples Bundle
Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning more about the apple! This pack is perfect for language arts and math centers in preschool, pre-K, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting student activities. Celebrate Fall with apple themed center student worksheets. Students will learn more about apples using puzzles, worksheets, clip cards, and subtraction mats. This pack is great for homeschoolers, hands-on kids activities, and to add to your unit studies! Teachers will receive the complete unit for Autumn apple math and literacy activities to help teach about apples to your lower elementary students!
Apple Literacy and Math Centers
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/farm-literacy-math-centers/">Farm Literacy & Math Centers</a></b>
Farm Literacy & Math Centers
Make learning fun with these Valentine's Day Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Valentine's Day themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Valentine's Day Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these these Flowers Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun spring themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Flower Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Easter themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Easter Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
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Gingerbread Addition Mats help students learn to add with a fun seasonal theme so they are more prepared to understand the concepts behind math problems.
Gingerbread Addition Mats
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/pumpkin-editable-addition-and-subtraction-activity/">Pumpkin Editable Addition & Subtraction</a></b>
Pumpkin Editable Addition & Subtraction
This Apple Editable Addition and Subtraction Activity will make reviewing math facts fun! Students will love playing this addition and subtraction game this fall!
Apple Editable Addition & Subtraction
Gingerbread Subtraction Mats are the perfect addition to your math centers this Christmas holiday season. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students.
Gingerbread Subtraction Mats
Christmas Lights Addition is the perfect addition to your math center. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten and first grade students.
Christmas Lights Addition Worksheets
Pumpkin Addition Mats is the perfect fall math center for your preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. This printable covers numbers up to 12 and also has two recording sheets for students to record their addition sentences. 
Pumpkin Addition Mats
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This Shapes Puzzles Printable is an enjoyable hands-on way for your students to learn their shapes. Incorporates learning and doing, while having fun!
Shapes Puzzles
When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.
12 Shape Books for Little Kids
This Shapes Sort freebie is absolutely perfect for an independent or small group math center.
Shapes Sort
Dot to Dot Shapes is a fun hands-on activity that your students or children will very much enjoy.
Dot to Dot Shape Activity
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/simple-shape-pencil-craft/">Shape Pencil Craft</a></b>
Shape Pencil Craft

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I'm Jennifer.... I taught Kindergarten and 1st grade, I have a stash of chocolate in my desk to keep me going, and I spend way too much time stalking the Target dollar bin. At a Dab of Glue Will Do, we help busy teachers and their little learners by creating awesome classroom resources which … read more

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