Kindergarten Math
Math doesn’t have to be complicated! You can teach Kindergarten math using our FREE printable kindergarten math worksheets, fun games, and hands-on math activities for kindergarten! Whether you are working on numbers, counting to 100, skip counting, basic addition and subtraction, shapes, patterns, or telling time – these handy and engaging ideas are the perfect math for kindergartners!
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Teach Kindergarten Math
Young children who are 4, 5, and 6 years old learn math best by seeing, doing, and visualizing the math concept. Counting out loud is abstract, but when they count out how many skittles they get and their sister gets, suddenly the number matter! Kindergarten math is so much fun! You get to see the idea click as kids faces light up and see their excitement to take what they have learned into their play and interactions in the real world. Children will be doing math not only their entire academic career, but their entire lives counting out money, telling time, balancing their checkbooks, measuring a new counter, and more!
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Math for Kindergartners
While all the manipulatives are handy, I want to emphasize you don’t NEED anything fancy or to spend any money to learn those concepts. You can use one of our free printable math puzzles, our cute shape bingo game, use loose change around the house to learn about money, make your own lego balance scale, stack lego to make base ten counting blocks for place value and addition, and use a tape measure to learn about measurement. You can actually teach all the math concepts you need to from this page right here with out any extra supplies! (see the bottom of the page for the kindergarten math checklist)
Math Activities for Kindergarten
Because Kindergartners learn best with hands-on, play based activities – we’ve got lots of creative kindergarten math activity ideas. Here are just a few of our favorites!
Counting Activities for Kindergarten
Before you can start learning math, you need to learn about counting numbers. Your students probably already know how to do this because you are probably counting with them already. This is a wonderful way to teach young kids in the real world. How many apples do we have left? Let’s count them – 1, 2, 3, 4. Have your child count the plates, pieces of mail, etc. Start with learning to count 1-10, then work on adding in those tricky teen numbers and count to 20. During the kg class, students will learn to count to 100 – one step-at-a-time! Once they’ve mastered counting, try counting backwards.
Skip Counting Activities
Teach kindergartners to count by groups – also called skip counting. Kindergartners typically learn to count by 2s, count by 5s, and count by 10s. This is not only a great way to improve math skills and count faster, but a wonderful foundation for multiplication in a couple of years!
Numbers for Kindergarten
Now that children learn how to count to 10, they need to know that there is a numeral that represents the number. They will learn the patterns by using 100s chart activities, practice tracing numbers, writing numbers, learning number words, and even some roman numerals too. They will also develop number sense – an understanding that you can represent the same number serveral ways. For example the number 6 can be shown as six, with 6 circles, 6 tally marks, or 2 + 1.
Shapes for Kindergarten
In kindergarten children will learn to identify and form some common geometric shapes like circles, oval, squares, rectangles, hearts, diamonds, stars, pentagon, hexagon, and more.
Kindergarten Clock Worksheets
Kindergartners are eager to know what time it is so they can do some of their favorite activities! This is a great time to start teaching them to tell time, beginning with telling time to the hour. Once they have mastered that simple concept, you can introduct the minute hand, then concepts like half past and quarter till as children use an analog clock to understand time.
Money Worksheets for Kindergarten
Learning the names of coins and their value can be tricky. We have lots of fun, playful, and engagine learning about money activities with FREE printables to make it quick and easy for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers. Whether you want to use our money sorting mat, money puzzles, or one of our other free money worksheets – you will love these handy resources!
Colors for Kindergarten
Most children are familiar with colors before kindergarten, but if they aren’t – now is the time to learn to recognize colors, learn color names, and more!
Addition for Kindergarten
Children are introduced to the concept of addition as they learn that if they have two pencils and are given one more they now have 3 pencils. To learn to add children will need lots of hands-on practice adding and counting real life objects or pictures to grasp the concept.
Subtraction for Kindergarten
After addition is understood, kids are taught about taking away or subracting. Again, showing kids visual and real life examples help to cement the concept in their mind. Here are fun ways to practice.
Kindergarten Math Worksheets
Because Kindergartners learn best with hands-on, play based activities – we’ve got lots of creative kindergarten math activity ideas. Here are just a few of our favorites!
FREE Printable Calendars
Another math skill children learn in kindergarten is to use a calendar. Help kids learn the days of the week and how a calendar works with these free calendar page printables!
