Math Center Activities Teaching Resources
Bring your math centers to life with math center activities created by teachers and rigorously reviewed by the expert educators on the Teach Starter team! You'll find math games, math printables, and more for students from kindergarten through elementary school.
Whether it's a set of counting clip cards, task cards for practicing time, a multiplication hidden picture, an interactive puzzle, or any of the other hundreds of unique math center games and activities in this collection, every single resource has been vetted to ensure it's ready for your classroom and your centers!
What Is a Math Center?
In an elementary classroom, a subject-focused center is a place within the room where students can work in small groups or semi-independently or with a small group to review information or a skill they have learned. These engaging spaces give teachers space to differentiate instruction for students and also allow learners to problem solve and practice working independently or with others.
In particular, a math center is a special space in the classroom that allows students to explore new math concepts so they can increase understanding and develop their math skills. These are also sometimes called math learning centers.
Students often work with math manipulatives in math centers, and they may work on a variety of concepts, from fact fluency to place value to geometry. The topic all depends on the math lessons on tap in your classroom!
Math centers may give students a chance to work in mixed groups or may work with academically alike groups or with students with similar or different learning styles or personalities.
How Do Math Centers Help Students?
Like writing and reading centers, math centers give students a chance to try out new concepts and apply the skills and strategies that they've learned in the classroom. As they say, practice makes perfect, and math centers provide students with that practice time.
Math centers have been linked to students' level of confidence in their abilities as young mathematicians, which is linked to their success in the classroom!
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Multiplying Fractions – Google Slides Interactive Activity
Challenge your students to multiply fractions while completing 7 different tasks with this Google slides interactive activity.
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Ordering Integers Activity — Task Cards
Introduce this ordering integers activity to your students to give them experience ordering positive and negative numbers.
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Whole Number Operations – Math Mats
Strengthen computation skills with these math mats when reviewing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers.
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Prime & Composite Numbers – Task Cards
Demonstrate an understanding of prime and composite numbers with this set of 24 task cards.
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Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Match-Up
Solve equations involving multiplication and division of decimals with this match-up activity.
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Fall Math Worksheets - Addition to 99
Celebrate the coming of Fall and practice adding 2-digit numbers up to 99 with a set of four Fall color-by-number worksheets.
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Dividing Fractions –Word Problem Task Cards
Solve word problems by dividing fractions and whole numbers with this set of 24 task cards.
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Finding Volume with Unit Cubes – Task Cards
Count unit cubes to determine the volume of a rectangular prism with this set of 24 task cards.
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Using Greater Than and Less Than Symbols - Halloween Worksheet
Practice using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols to compare two-digit numbers with a fun Halloween worksheet.
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Counting Clip Cards - Insects
Practice counting objects with a set of 18 insect-themed counting clip cards.
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Pictograph, Bar Graph, & Dot Plot Match-Up (Scaled Intervals)
Use data analysis skills to match tally charts and frequency tables with their corresponding bar graph, pictograph, or dot plot.
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Interactive Area Puzzle (Triangles)
Set this task for students to find the area of 16 triangles on the board and match the corresponding pieces to reveal a mystery picture.
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Comparing Three-Digit Numbers – Worksheet
Practice comparing 3-digit numbers with this hands-on worksheet.
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Multiply or Divide It! Board Game
Practice multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 and 100 with this board game.
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Roll and Cover – Telling Time to the Minute
Practice telling to the minute with this roll and cover game
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Snakes and Ladders Game - Hundreds Chart
Complete each hundreds chart by putting the missing numbered pieces into place to play a game of Snakes and Ladders.
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Count the Dimes Worksheet
Use skip counting and addition skills to determine the number of dimes needed for a given amount.
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Color by Coin - Coin Identification Worksheet
Identify quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies by coloring each picture according to a color guide.
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Count the Pennies - Worksheet
Use counting and addition skills to determine the number of pennies needed for a given amount.
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Count the Nickels Worksheet
Use skip counting and addition skills to determine the number of nickels needed for a given amount.
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Count and Graph – In the Classroom
Practice collecting, sorting, and organizing data to create a graph with this 2-page worksheet.
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Addition to 10 Modeling Mats
Familiarize students with adding single-digit numbers using this set of practice mats.
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Color by Number - Numbers 0–9
A color by number activity for students to practice number recognition.
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One More, One Less - Worksheet
Practice foundational addition and subtraction facts using the concepts of one more and one less.
- Math Center Activities Games
- Math Center Activities Task Cards
- Math Center Activities Worksheets
- Math Center Activities Matchup Games
- Math Center Activities Puzzles
- Math Center Activities Board Games
- Math Center Activities Color by Code
- Math Center Activities Interactive Activities
- Math Center Activities Templates
- Math Center Activities Dominoes
- Math Center Activities Sorting Activities
- Math Center Activities Card Games
- Math Center Activities Dice Games
- Math Center Activities Mazes
- Math Center Activities Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Math Center Activities Tarsia Puzzles
- Math Center Activities Mini Book
- Math Center Activities Bingo
- Math Center Activities Flashcards
- Math Center Activities Posters
- Math Center Activities Projects
- Math Center Activities Craft Activities
- Math Center Activities Escape Room Games
- Math Center Activities Connect the Dots
- Math Center Activities Logic Puzzles
- Math Center Activities 100 Chart
- Math Center Activities Instructional Slide Decks
- Math Center Activities Labels Signs Decorations
- Math Center Activities Word Searches
- Math Center Activities Graphic Organizers
- Math Center Activities Coloring Pages
- Math Center Activities Tracing Worksheets
- Math Center Activities for Pre-K
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- Math Center Activities for 1st Grade
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- Math Center Activities for 7th Grade