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The document provides a variety of math activity ideas that incorporate different tools and learning areas, such as sponges in the art area, paper in the block area, and rocks in the science area. It includes prompts for educators to fill in their own activity ideas and examples of 'math talk' to facilitate discussions with children during these activities. The goal is to enhance math learning through creative and engaging contexts.

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STEM MathActivityIdeas

The document provides a variety of math activity ideas that incorporate different tools and learning areas, such as sponges in the art area, paper in the block area, and rocks in the science area. It includes prompts for educators to fill in their own activity ideas and examples of 'math talk' to facilitate discussions with children during these activities. The goal is to enhance math learning through creative and engaging contexts.

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Make Believe With MATH Educator Resources

Math Activity Ideas


Each set of pictures includes a math tool and a learning area. These pairs represent possible contexts where
math learning can happen. Fill in the chart by answering the two prompts about your activity ideas and the math
talk you can use. Examples to help guide you are also provided.

MATH TOOLS AND ACTIVITY: What math activities can you think of MATH TALK: What “math talk” would you use
LEARNING AREAS that use these tools and learning areas? when guiding this activity?

SPONGES + ART AREA

More activity ideas: More math talk ideas:


• Cut sponges into different shapes. • That’s a beautiful pattern you made:
Children can use shapes to create art and triangle, square, triangle, square, triangle.
make patterns. What comes next?
• Let’s copy this pattern in the book:
circle, circle, triangle; circle, circle, triangle.
How did you know a triangle came after two
circles? Let’s check the pattern.

PAPER + BLOCK AREA

More activity ideas: More math talk ideas:


• Children can use paper to create bridges. • Let’s fold the paper into this shape…
Fold the paper back and forth as if making a fan (rectangle, triangle)
(to create little rectangles), and place the creased • What does your road look like?
paper on top of two blocks. (curvy, straight, long, short)
• Children can make roads by folding, cutting, • Where is the paper? (above, underneath, behind)
or drawing on the paper with crayons. They can • How does your car move? (uphill, downhill)
talk about the roads being straight, curvy,
or different lengths. Perhaps some blocks can • How many blocks do you need?
become cars and go uphill or downhill.

ROCKS + SCIENCE AREA

More activity ideas: More math talk ideas:


• Explore what it means to be a geologist as • You sorted the rocks into two piles. It looks
children sort and count rocks. like they have different amounts. Let’s count to
• Put rocks in a container until they almost reach the check how many are in each pile.
top. Ask children to describe the container (full or • If one more rock comes to join your collection,
empty). Guess together how many more rocks you how many will you have all together?
would need to make the container completely full. Let’s count each rock.

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