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Winter Math Teaching Resources
Math Activities for December, Christmas, and January
Welcome to my Winter Math Teaching Resources page. On this page, you will find unique math lesson plans and activities for December, Christmas, and January.
I have not taught math in many years, so I had to challenge myself to come up with some winter math activities to share with you. I hope that you find the winter math teaching resources on this page unique and that your students will be engaged, instead of bored by traditional drill and practice math worksheets.
If you have any ideas for December, Christmas, or January math teaching resources and activities that you would like to share with the teachers viewing this website, please use my contact page to let me know your ideas and suggestions
This is an ice cream shaped multiplication incentive chart that you can use to record your students' progress at learning their multiplication facts 1 - 10, or 1 - 12.
This unique math multiplication incentive chart grows in height as your students learn their multiplication facts. Each student begins with a ice cream cone displayed in your classroom. As each student masters a new times table, they place that new scoop on top of their ice cream cone, so that your students' ice cream cone charts are growing as they are mastering their times table facts.
When these ice cream multiplication charts are completed, they measure 31 inches in height and 3 inches in width.
This math multiplication incentive chart set includes the following:
Directions
Color cone and 12 color multiplication scoops
Black and white cone and 12 black and white multiplication scoops
Student award certificate for learning the multiplication facts 1-10 (in color and black and white)
Student award certificate for learning the multiplication facts 1-12 (in color and black and white)
Vertical 3 page bulletin board banner
Horizontal 5 page bulletin board banner
Below is a sample of the directions that are provided for this multiplication incentive chart set.
Below are samples of the cone and ice cream scoop templates. There are 12 ice cream scoops, in different colors.
If you prefer to have your students color their cone and ice cream scoops themselves, I have provided black and white versions of these templates in this set as well.
This set comes with student award certificates for you to present to your students after they have mastered learning their multiplication times tables.
There are two versions of these awards, one for mastering the times tables 1-10, and another version for mastering the times tables 1-12. Both of these student award certificates come in both color and black and white versions.
Below is the horizontal 5 page banner that comes with this set to help you decorate your bulletin board.
Below is the vertical 3 page banner that comes with this set to help you decorate your bulletin board. There are two versions of this banner, one that says "MATH" and another than says "MATHS," depending on the wording used in your country.
Below you find a matching resource of large multiplication facts on ice cream cones that I made as a supplemental resource for this unit.
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Math Multiplication 1-12 Ice Cream Scoops Bulletin Board Display
$4.50
This is an ice cream shaped multiplication facts bulletin board display set. This set includes a display for the multiplication facts 1 - 12 and a 5 page bulletin board display banner (see above).
Each set of multiplication cones measures 68 inches in height. This set in the photograph below does not include the 11 and 12 times table scoops on it.
Each multiplication set includes a cone and 12 scoops, each on a separate sheet of paper to assemble into a large vertical multiplication ice cream cone. There are 12 sets of cones in different colors for the 12 times tables and a bulletin board dispay banner. There are 161 pages of printable resources in this set.
Below: In the 12 sets of multiplication facts, I have used 6 different colors. Below is a photograph of three of these multiplication scoops displayed in Teresa's classroom (a grade 4 teacher from New Jersey). Teresa chose not use the 11 and 12 times table scoops in her classroom display.
Since it is difficult to describe each of my winter math powerpoint presentations in words, I have made a video of each presentation for you to watch. These videos will give you an idea of what each lesson contains, as well as helpful tips for you if you use one of these math powerpoint lessons with your students. I hope that you find these videos helpful, but please be aware that I am an extreme novice at making videos!
Many students find traditional math exercises boring and dull. I encourage you to use powerpoint presentations to bring life to these boring exercises. I have designed my power point presentations and lesson plans to be engaging to your students.
The power point presentations on this page are all based on November themes. These engaging powerpoint lessons have been designed using two standard fonts: Arial Black and Comic Sans. I chose these fonts because they are the most widely found on most computers, and they will not change the style and format when viewed on your classroom computer. I use graphic animations and powerpoint animations when I am designing my powerpoints, and I try to locate colorful background templates for the presentations that I prepare.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping Christmas Powerpoint Lesson Math Multiplication and Addition Word Problems
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Christmas Shopping Math Word Problems Powerpoint Lesson
$2.00
For this Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping math powerpoint lesson, students have to use both multiplication and addition to solve these Christmas word problems. The math word problems in this activity involve money, so students are reviewing money, decimal points, and place value as well.
These math word problems use an engaging shopping cart style format and students have to calculate how much money Mr. and Mrs. Claus have spent on the items that they bought.
There are 5 sets of questions and answers in this powerpoint lesson, as well as a student response worksheet for students to work out their answers on.
These 5 Christmas word problem questions work well as a daily warm up activity which you could do each day of the week prior to Christmas vacation. Your students will love reviewing multiplication, addition, and money equations with this engaging and animated December activity!
Below is a video explaining my Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping: Math Word Problems powerpoint lesson.
Solve Santa's Puzzles Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Puzzles
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Solve Santa's Math Puzzles Powerpoint Lesson
$1.50
For this Solve Santa's Puzzles powerpoint lesson, students have to solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations, using an engaging Christmas puzzle style format.
This puzzle is similar to the math puzzles that I have on my Halloween and Thanksgiving pages, but it has multiplication skills added to it. You will need to review the order of operations with you students before they complete these puzzles so that they understand that they should multiply, divide, add, and then subtract when solving mathematical equations.
There are 5 sets of questions and answers in this powerpoint lesson, as well as a student response worksheet for students to work out their answers on. These "puzzles" work well as a daily warm up activity which you could do each day of the week prior to the winter holidays.
Your students will love reviewing addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations with this engaging and animated Christmas powerpoint activity!
Below is a video explaining my Solve Santa's Puzzle Christmas Math Powerpoint Presentation.
I hope that this page has given you some ideas for some winter math teaching resources that you can use with your students during December and January.
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Thank you for visiting my Winter Math teaching resources page. I hope to see you back here at Unique Teaching Resources! Happy Holidays! Heidi
Welcome to my Winter Math Teaching Resources page. On this page, you will find unique math lesson plans and activities for December, Christmas, and January.
