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Halloween is a great opportunity to have some fun in math while the children still do worthwhile activities!   Halloween and math make a great partnership! I doubt that there is any other theme that will motivate as much a Halloween will!         There are loads of simple games and ideas that you can use that will combine math and Halloween! These simple Tic Tac Toe games are soooooo easy to create! You just need some plastic spiders or bats and a grid drawn on paper!        These math challenges are easy to create too! We used the poster above for 2 different activities. 1. Find as many combinations of 2 or 3 numbers that add to 31 (for October 31 of course)! 2. Find sets of 3 numbers where 2 of the numbers add to the third number! Find as many as possible for each! Winner is the person with the most! Our winners received a plastic spider! :)            These are our Halloween Math Place Value Friends...

It is fun to add some Halloween to math time and I have a few things that will help you to do that with cost and no fuss!   The Halloween Bump Games Freebie has 2 Halloween Math Bump Games. Kids love to play bump and this Halloween theme makes it even more fun!     You can download these Halloween Math Board Games from Teachers Pay Teachers at Halloween Math Bump Games Freebie              I also have 3 Halloween Math Board Games in my Halloween Math Board Games Freebie. These games review number properties as students try to be the one to catch the last ghost. Download these games at Halloween Math Board Games Freebie     Want more Halloween Math Fun? Check out this simple Halloween Math Puzzle that I made - This one is sure to get kids thinking! They have to create an addition equation from the numbers in each ghost. With the first one 1, 2, 4, 9 and 3 you could make 32+9=41. Make your own by drawing several gh...

Halloween is a great topic to use to motivate kids in math! Adding a little bit of Halloween to your math means adding loads and loads of fun too! Halloween Fractions Here is a really simple way to have some fun with fractions at Halloween. Brainstorm a list of Halloween words then calculate the fraction of consonants and vowels. This is a great activity for developing the concept of fractions. Playing games is also a great way to incorporate Halloween into Math time. That's why I have created 4 new sets of Halloween Math Games for grades 1 to 4. Halloween Math Games Grade by Grade These sets allow students to practise and review basic math concepts for their grade while they have so much fun that they don't even realize that they are actually learning! Each set contains 14 printable Halloween Games. The games are a mix of board games and No Prep game sheets for 2 players. These games are ideal for Halloween math centers, fast finishers or even Halloween homework. Let me sho...