https://twitter.com/khurckes/status/1246121997186347016?s=20

https://twitter.com/traciteacher/status/1247269497976709120

https://twitter.com/jnovakowski38/status/1247962264323284993?s=20

https://twitter.com/NicoleBallinge3/status/1267942583063343105?s=20

https://twitter.com/laura_wagenman/status/1262493276063633414?s=20

Crazy Train. Gather a collection of items that have different attributes (e.g. color, has [numbers], made of X, are electronic). Make a line where each object has something in common with the object(s) next to it. How long a train can you make?

https://twitter.com/RuthTrundley/status/1267387519575953408?s=20

Before and After. This game helps children practice what number comes before or after another number – or what’s one more (or less) than a number. You can write the number instead of rolling a die. Older children can practice what’s 10 or 100 more or less than a number.

https://twitter.com/robertsonprog/status/1260589366495199234?s=20

Splat! Given an image with some number of counters (or coins) and the total showing, figure out how many are (or how much money is) hidden. If you use coins, what combination of coins could be under the splat?

https://twitter.com/MrsNsnyder/status/1260202614475628545?s=20

Meal Prep. So many ways to work math into getting ready for meals, making meals, and cleaning up! (Thanks to DREME and Family Math.)

https://twitter.com/SNRPDP/status/1262846582359068673?s=20

If [100] is the answer, what is the question? Choose an answer. Generate lots of questions that have that answer!

https://twitter.com/MrsStrumsky/status/1263618274656485378?s=20

https://twitter.com/RFJamesUK/status/1247501047846879239

https://twitter.com/stacywaskosky/status/1282816208132284424

https://twitter.com/PaulaKrieg/status/1279366964809474048?s=20

https://twitter.com/SWOLearningCo/status/1264901232638001162

https://twitter.com/guidedlearning2/status/1262920097166880770

Counting Books Looking for readalouds? Check out this library, with titles that explore numbers to 10, 20, and 100 and beyond, as well as ideas like 0 and counting by groups.

https://twitter.com/LFINaus/status/1265639348696834048?s=20

How Many? What can you count? How many do you see? How do you know?

https://twitter.com/anniesmith821/status/1273277263828705280?s=20

Dominoes What math questions do you see? Here are some: How many tiles? How do you know? … How many dots? How do you know?

https://twitter.com/shskaercher/status/1271177873471279105?s=20

Fun with Paper Airplanes Make a paper airplane. Throw it at a target with several holes, each labeled with a different number. Keep score!

https://twitter.com/MrsStajduhar1A/status/1260196268695064577?s=20

The Horse Problem Good for young and old alike. How did you think about it? How would you convince someone else your thinking makes sense? Acting it out can be a helpful strategy!

https://twitter.com/mburnsmath/status/1240751107036426240?s=20

Ways to Show a Number How many different ways can you find to show 8?

https://twitter.com/kpkkind/status/1260711470020661248?s=20

Patterns What do you have at home that you could use to make a pattern? How do you know what comes next?

https://twitter.com/stacywaskosky/status/1261326844063866882?s=20%20%20growing%20pattern

Math with Water Balloons So many ways to think about this activity! Label water balloons with numbers, kids run to put them in order. Label water balloons with facts, kids run to put them on their sum/difference/product/quotient. What other games can you create?

https://twitter.com/MWteaches/status/1261375643192889348?s=20

Would You Get Rich? If you offer to do a chore for 1¢ on day 1, 2¢ on day 2, 4¢ on day 3, 8¢ on day 4…how much would you make in a week? 2 weeks? One month?

https://twitter.com/mburnsmath/status/1263105077486645248

Fraction Talks with Legos If the green Lego is one, how much is the brown? See the @up_teach timeline for many “remixes” of this image. Have Legos at home? Make your own!

https://twitter.com/up_teach/status/1259932734337675264

How Many? How many? How do you know?

https://twitter.com/getting_sharper/status/1267972677559635969?s=20

How many? How many squares? … How many squares are outlined with color? How many squares aren’t totally outlined in color? … How many squares are outlined using one color? two colors? 3 colors? … What else can you count? … And, always, how do you know?

https://twitter.com/heidifessenden/status/1264296440014176256?s=20

How many? What could you count? How do you know how many?

https://twitter.com/stacywaskosky/status/1262581317704826886?s=20

How Many? How many eggs in one full box? How many eggs in each box? How many empty spots? How do you know?

https://twitter.com/jnathanedmonds/status/1248258946462294016?s=20

How Many? How many bricks? …. How many white? How many red? … What fraction is white? What fraction is red? … How much paint to finish the job?

https://twitter.com/BedtimeMath/status/1267577961613537287?s=20

2-D and 3-D Shapes What can you find, draw, or build at home? What’s the same about 2-d and 3-d shapes? What’s different?

https://twitter.com/asnider_teach/status/1263865085551874055?s=20

Shapes with Chips Do you have chips or other snacks at home? What shape is one? What shapes can you make with more than one?

https://twitter.com/amanda_renard/status/1263913026505199616?s=20

Making Shapes Do you have toothpicks and clay? What can you  make?

https://twitter.com/Mrs_ERosario/status/1263894582863020032?s=20

Cutting Sidewalks How many pieces can you make if you cut a rectangle with one line? with 2? with 3?

https://twitter.com/mburnsmath/status/1258093971479203841?s=20

Sidewalk Math Make a design and then ask some questions about it! See sample questions at YouCubed.org.

https://twitter.com/NLW_PS/status/1256290392896667655?s=20

Make a Puzzle Cut one face of a box into pieces to make a puzzle!

https://twitter.com/ThompsonK102/status/1255611163251036160?s=20

An Array Hunt What arrays can you find? How many rows? How many columns? How many total?

https://twitter.com/KellyGartside/status/1255223641542930438?s=20

Shut the Box Practice addition combinations and think about strategy. Directions here.

https://twitter.com/Carlongilesmath/status/1256260699753459714?s=20

How many dancing feet? Solve a riddle about dancing feet. Challenge: Make a dancing feet riddle for someone else to solve!

https://twitter.com/BedtimeMath/status/1253787109628022784?s=20

Angles in Your Name What kinds of angles can you find in your name?

https://twitter.com/JillSirlin/status/1255854798341013505?s=20

Representing Counting by Groups of 2 How could you show counting by 2s with things at home?

https://twitter.com/CollingwoodP_S/status/1255491167728304128?s=20

Describing a Cube Can you find examples of a cube at home? How would you describe them? How many faces? How many vertices?

https://twitter.com/CooteMrs/status/1256239753697079297?s=20

Sopa de Números What equations can you find? (Also, the Chapman #MathPlay Activity Series releases a new video for families every Friday at noon.)

https://twitter.com/YehCathery/status/1256308647547695104?s=20

Roller Derby Practice sums, and think about strategy (probability)! Directions here.

https://twitter.com/mtrushkowsky/status/1255700041106436096?s=20

A Venn Diagram Puzzle Can you find a number that fits each region in the diagram? Challenge: Make a Venn Diagram puzzle for someone else to solve!

https://twitter.com/traciteacher/status/1254464101746569216?s=20

Math & Motion Do some math while getting some exercise!

https://twitter.com/peterrowlett/status/1254769337157599235?s=20

A Number Hunt What numbers can you find? Can you find decimal numbers? What do the numbers tell you?

https://twitter.com/MrLittle123/status/1253317811671379969?s=20

Race to Fill. Roll, add, and put a [grape] in the answer. For older kids: roll, add, and multiply by 7. Race to fill all the sections.

https://twitter.com/Maths4Kids/status/1251488232535216128?s=20

How many windows? Young children can think about 1 or a few floors and how they know. Older children can think about more floors, and whether they can figure out the number of windows on [10 or 20] floors without first figuring out 1-9 or 1-19 floors.

https://twitter.com/BedtimeMath/status/1252720059706900481?s=20

Fractions of Squares Do you see 1/4 in the image? Can you see 1/4 another way? How would that change if the teal and yellow sections together equal 1? Additional images and challenges: image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5. (Inspired by Traci Jackson’s Math Walks and Nat Banting’s Fraction Talks.)

https://twitter.com/KeplerTrish/status/1254158716728983554?s=20

Sidewalk Geometry Make an outline using one color chalk or tape. Color the shapes. How many [triangles, shapes with 4 sides]? Challenge: Challenge kids to design the outline. Can you make one that only uses [triangles]?

https://twitter.com/heidifessenden/status/1249386922134429702?s=20

Math & Motion Do some math while getting some exercise!

https://twitter.com/Parks_AS/status/1252391442116251655?s=20

Strike It Out In this game, Player 1 chooses two numbers to cross out on the numberline and then finds and circles the sum or difference of those two numbers. Player 2 crosses out that circled number, chooses another to cross out, and circles the sum or difference. The winner? The player who prevents their opponent from being able to take a turn. (Directions, from @nrichmaths.)

https://twitter.com/NJC_Ed_Maths/status/1252218374869975046?s=20

Show Multiplication What can you find to show multiplication? You can use groups, an array, or an area model. How does it show multiplication?

https://twitter.com/solveitinthird/status/1252721615177220096?s=20

Fraction Equivalents How many different ways could you make 3/4 cup with the measuring cups shown? 3/8? 5/8?

https://twitter.com/KellyGartside/status/1252651611408740352?s=20

A Counting Book Can you find 1, 2, 3…10 of something at home? Make a counting book about what you find.

https://twitter.com/millsmath/status/1248991356019761155?s=20

Race for 20 A demonstration of Race for 20, a Marilyn Burns game. (See a blog about it, and variations of it, here.)

https://twitter.com/NovaKatz/status/1245943217490505728?s=20

An Array Hunt Outside Look for arrays in your neighborhood. What can you find? For each, think about how many rows? How many columns? How many in all?

https://twitter.com/McLennan1977/status/1248233755359272961?s=20

Socks More math with the laundry. How many socks? How many pairs can we make? Then, make pairs of matching socks. How many pairs did we make? How many leftovers?

https://twitter.com/hellokritty/status/1241064929341231104?s=20

Make an Equation Can you put symbols between the numbers so that the equation equals 100? Is there more than one way? (See more ideas at Math Walks.)

https://twitter.com/traciteacher/status/1251873544381689857?s=20

A Number Hunt Look for numbers in your neighborhood. What do the numbers tell you? Can you put them in order?

https://twitter.com/StPhilipOCSB/status/1243707552392757249?s=20

An Array Hunt Look for arrays at home. What can you find? For each one you find, think about how many rows? How many columns? How many items in all?

https://twitter.com/mrsmcb_edu/status/1247900062107066371?s=20

Measuring with Non-Standard Units How long is your [arm, leg] if you use your socks to measure? How many socks tall are you? What if it doesn’t take an exact number of socks? Challenge: Do you think it will take more of your socks or Dad’s socks to measure your height? Why do you think so? Can you estimate how many of Dad’s socks it will take? How would you think about that?

https://twitter.com/FlashJangle/status/1247440871349522434?s=20

Sidewalk Geometry Make an outline using one color chalk or tape. Color the shapes. Challenge: Challenge kids to design the outline. Can you make one that only uses [triangles]?

https://twitter.com/KaitlynGaik/status/1246570586480021504?s=20

Toilet Paper Math This thread of Tweets shows how one jumbo package of toilet paper can present a context for multistep problems. 1) How many rolls? How do you know? 2) How many packs? How many in a pack? 3) If we split the rolls equally between our two bathrooms, how many will each bathroom get?

https://twitter.com/kassiaowedekind/status/1245799678446272514?s=20

Paper Chains Using 2 pieces of paper, what’s the longest paper chain you can make?

https://twitter.com/MTL_CS_Miller1/status/1245675148050665472?s=20

Measuring with Nonstandard Units Use a non-standard measurement unit (e.g., same-sized blocks or legos, paper clips, birthday candles, or spoons) to measure things around your home. How can you show what you found on paper? Extension: Find things to measure where there are multiple, different examples (e.g., dandelions in the yard, feet in your house). Put them in order and make comparisons like, “The smallest dandelion was one cube. The tallest was 5. The tallest is 4 more than the smallest.”

https://twitter.com/McLennan1977/status/1247490081721667586?s=20

Guess My Number Use a 100 chart, 501-600 chart, a section of a 100 chart, or a list of written numbers to help you keep track of what you learn with each guess!

https://twitter.com/ohioctm/status/1240608962371678208?s=20

Save Twenty In this @mathforlove game, players roll dice with the goal of getting as close to (or exactly) 20 without going over. Players roll 5 dice, “save” as many as they like each round, and roll any they don’t save again. After 4 rounds, add the amounts on the dice to get your score. If your total is over 20, your score is 0. Play a set number of games. The person with the highest score wins.

https://twitter.com/bstockus/status/1245042815677194240?s=20

Sums to 1,000 Use the numbers 1-9 to make three 3-digit numbers that sum as close as possible to 1,000.

https://twitter.com/robertkaplinsky/status/1242458525629988865?s=20

Find the Numbers and Make a Number Line Hide numbers around the house for students to find. Put them in order to make an at-home number line!

https://twitter.com/CollingwoodP_S/status/1244653285283450880?s=20

Make a Puzzle Use the front of a cereal or other box to make a puzzle.

https://twitter.com/McLennan1977/status/1244652422741610501?s=20

Sums to 100 Use the numbers 1-9 to make 3 two-digit numbers that sum as close as possible to 100.

https://twitter.com/ohioctm/status/1240971348492550145?s=20

A Nature Hunt What can you find outside? How many different kinds of things? How many of each kind? Can you make a graph that shows what you found? What does the graph tell you?

https://twitter.com/crystalmwilder/status/1242530787100147716?s=20

Counting Tangerines Find situations to pose questions about counting. Ask, “How many [pieces of tangerine]? How do you know?” And, “How many [tangerines] total do you think I used? Why do you think so?”

https://twitter.com/recinossuly/status/1245209707536515072?s=20

Sprout  A game that requires only pencil and paper. Easy enough for the very young, with lots for older children and adults to think about.

https://twitter.com/mburnsmath/status/1243952145923072000?s=20

A Color Hunt Children who are beginning to learn about attributes and sorting can sort a set of objects by color, or go on a search for objects to sort by color. Discuss the ones that raise questions, e.g., objects that are more than one color. (Note: This activity comes from:

https://www.dayswithgrey.com/blog/preschool-morning-routines-that-encourage-child-led-learning.)

https://twitter.com/Mythagon/status/1242165093225213952?s=20

Shape Hunts Students can look for 2-D shapes, 3-D shapes, shapes with [4] sides, shapes with [6] faces, or [triangles] or [cubes].

https://twitter.com/IndianRiverAcad/status/1240675579441094659?s=20

Drawing Shapes Challenge your child to draw different shapes. You can ask for a particular shape – “Can you draw a square?” – or for a shape with a particular attribute – “Can you draw a shape with 3 straight sides?”.  Extension: Draw as many different examples of shapes with 4 sides you think of. What makes them different? How many can we name? (Printable dot paper. Do the activity online.)

https://twitter.com/kath_cartwright/status/1242966542330912769?s=20

Pairs of Socks After sorting and pairing the family’s socks, count how many pairs and how many leftovers without a partner? An extension: if we have [#] pairs of socks, how many socks are there altogether? How do you know? What if we added in the socks without a parnter?

https://twitter.com/NMedina5/status/1242478587200122880?s=20

Dominoes If you have a set of dominoes, make a sheet with areas for 1-18. The task: find the total number of dots on each domino, and place it beneath that sum. (Extension: Record an equation for each domino after you’re done. Extension: Is there more than one equation you could write? eg 7 + 7 =14, 3+1+3+3+1+3=14)

https://twitter.com/MrsMains/status/1239910657174253574?s=20

Counting Coins Give your child a set of coins. Younger students can sort them into groups, count how many are in each group, and name the groups (e.g., pennies). Slightly older students can figure out how much money is in each group and how to write it. Older students can figure out how much money there is altogether and how to write it. Discuss the value of each coin and relationships between the coins. Extension: How many different ways could you make [.25¢]? Do you have them all? How do you know?

https://twitter.com/jsandersmath/status/1240340371378487302?s=20