Winter Math Teaching Resources
Fun Math Lesson Plans and Powerpoint
Presentations For Christmas and Winter
Welcome to my Christmas and winter math teaching resources page.
On this page, you will find fun math activities that will engage your students learning this December and January!
These Christmas and winter lesson plans review addition, subtraction, multiplication, decimals, place value, and money skills.
Motivate your students to learn their multiplication tables with my one of a kind ice cream multiplication
charts that grow taller as your students learn each of their times tables.
Many students find traditional math exercises boring and dull. I encourage you to use fun powerpoint presentations to
bring life to these boring mathematics exercises.
At the beginning of math class, provide your students with a fun powerpoint warm up activity using one of the Mr. and Mrs. Clause Go Shopping
math word problems. These animated word problems require students to solve questions involving addition, multiplication, money,
decimal points, and place value.
The next day, have your students complete an Christmas math puzzle that will engage your students solving addition, subtraction,
and multiplication equations.
I hope that these Christmas and winter math teaching resources will provide you with some ideas for
some fun math activities that you can complete with your students during December and January.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping
Math Word Problems Powerpoint
Math Addition and Multiplication Word Problems
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For this Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping math powerpoint presentation, students have to use both
addition and multiplication to solve these Christmas word problems.
The math word problems in this activity involve money,
so students are also reviewing money, decimal points, and place value as well.
These math word problems use an engaging grocery 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 question and answer slides in this powerpoint lesson, as well as two student response
worksheets for students to work out their answers on.
These five Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping word problems would work well as a daily warm up activity which you
could do each day of the week prior to winter vacation. Your students will love reviewing multiplication,
addition, and money equations using this engaging and animated Christmas activity!
This powerpoint presentation includes two student response worksheets for students to write their answers on.
Engage your students in reviewing money, decimal points, and place value
with this fun set of math teaching resources!
Winter Math Teaching Resources: Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping Word Problems Worksheet
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Christmas word problems powerpoint presentation.
Below: Watch "Mr. and Mrs. Claus Go Shopping" You Tube Video
winter math teaching resources video demonstration.
Solve Santa's Puzzles Powerpoint
Fun Animated Math Puzzles That Review
Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
(Solving Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Equations)
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For this Solve Santa's Puzzles powerpoint presentation, students have to solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication
equations, using an engaging and fun 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
your 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 question and answer slides in this powerpoint presention, as well as a two student response
worksheets for students to work out their answers on.
These 5 Christmas puzzles work well as a daily warm up activity which you
could do each day of the week. Your students will love
reviewing addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations with this engaging and animated winter activity!
This powerpoint presentation includes two student response worksheets for students to write their answers on (shown below).
Engage your students in reviewing addition,subtraction, and multiplication equations
with this fun set of math powerpoint puzzles!
Winter Math Teaching Resources: Solve Santa's Puzzles
Below you can watch a short video that demonstrates my
Solve Santa's Puzzles powerpoint presentation.
Below: Watch My "Solve Santa's Puzzles" You Tube Video
winter math teaching resources video demonstration.
Multiplication Ice Cream Scoops
Fun Multiplication Incentive Charts
For Elementary School Students
Winter Math Teaching Resources
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Your students can chill out this winter by using this cool ice cream shaped multiplication incentive chart.
You can use this fun set of winter math teaching resources to chart your students' progress
as they are learning their times tables.
This unique math multiplication incentive chart grows in height
as your students learn their multiplication facts (1 - 10 or 1 - 12).
Each student should begin with an ice cream cone displayed on
a bulletin board in your classroom. As a student learns a
new times table, she will place a new scoop of ice cream on top of her ice cream cone.
As your students are learning their times tables, their ice cream cone
charts are growing in height!
When these cute times table charts are completed, they
measure 31 inches X 3 inches.
This set of winter math teaching resources includes the following:
- Directions worksheet
- Black and white cone and 12 ice cream scoops
- Color cone and 12 ice cream scoops
- Horizontal 5 page bulletin board banner
(example is shown above) - Vertical 3 page bulletin board banner
(example is below) - Two Student award certificate for learning the multiplication facts 1 - 10 or 1 - 12
(color and black and white worksheets)
Below is an example of the directions worksheet that is
included in this set of winter math teaching resources.
Below are examples of the cone and ice cream scoop templates.
There are 12 different colors of ice cream scoops.
These ice cream scoops are glued on top of each other as
your students learn each of their times tables (see examples below).
If you prefer to have your students color their cones and ice cream scoops
themselves, there are black and white templates in this set as well.
The 11 and 12 times tables are also included, but not shown here.
This winter math teaching resources set includes 2 student award certificates
for you to present to your students after they have mastered learning their multiplication times tables.
This multiplication award certificate is for learning the 1 - 10 times tables.
This multiplication award certificate is for learning the 1 - 12 times tables.
There are also black and white copies of these award
certificates included in this set of math teaching resources.
Above is a second banner that is included in this set. This is a vertical 3 page banner.
There are two versions of this banner, one that says "MATH" and another
that says "MATHS," depending on the wording used in your country.
Below you will find a matching set of teaching resources.
This is a classroom display set of multiplication facts on large ice cream
cones that I made as a supplemental resource for this multiplication unit.
Multiplication Facts 1 - 12
Ice Cream Scoops Bulletin Board Display Set
Winter Math Teaching Resources
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This is an ice cream shaped multiplication bulletin board display set.
This Back to School math teaching resources set includes displays for the multiplication facts 1 - 12 and a
5 page bulletin board banner (see above).
Each set of multiplication cones measures 68 inches in height.
Above is a photograph of three of these multiplication scoops displayed in
Teresa's classroom (a Grade 4 teacher from New Jersey). Teresa chose not
to use the 11 and 12 times table scoops in her classroom display.
There are 12 sets of multiplication ice cream cones in this classroom display set.
Each set includes a cone and 12 scoops of ice cream, each on a separate sheet of paper.
There are 161 pages of printable worksheets in this set of math teaching resources.
Above: Example of the ice cream templates for the 3 times tables.
Above: Example of the ice cream templates for the 4 times tables.
Above: Example of the 4 times tables templates assembled together.
Above: Example of the ice cream templates for the 7 times tables.
Above: Example of the ice cream templates for the 12 times tables.
Click on the link below to download a free sample of these
multiplication scoops:
Free: Download Sample 8 Times Table Ice Cream Cone Display
Key Words For Solving Word Problems
Ice Cream Math Display Set For Solving Word Problems:
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
Winter Math Teaching Resources
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This word problem classroom and bulletin display set will assist
your students in solving math word problems involving addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division.
These 4 brightly colored ice cream sets will make an eye catching math word problems
display in your classroom.
Each addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division key words set
contains 15 different key words to use. You can choose to use all 15 ice
cream scoops for each set, or you can select the ones that are referred
to in your math curriculum.
The ice cream scoops are designed to stack on top of each other and
each set is a different color.
- Yellow: key words for addition words problems
- Blue: key words for subraction words problems
- Green: key words for multiplication words problems
- Red: key words for division words problems
These large word problem displays will be a great visual
reminder and a help to your students. Your students will be able to
refer to these ice cream displays when they are solving math word problems.
15 Key Words for Addition Word Problems:
plus - sum - and - total of - in all
altogether - together - added to - combined - increased by
both - more than - additional - perimeter - extra
15 Key Words for Subtraction Word Problems:
minus - difference of - difference between - decrease by - reduce by
fewer than - less than - left - take away - how many more
how much more - remaining - change - lost - dropped
15 Key Words for Multiplication Word Problems:
times - multiply - multiplied by - of - product of
twice - doubled - tripled - area - volume -
factor of - groups of - sets of - how many times - at this rate
15 Key Words for Division Word Problems:
divided by - quotient of - ratio of - percent - average - out of
per - each - equal pieces - shared equally - distribute equally
half - split equally - divided into - cut into equal pieces
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