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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Multi-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Task Cards
Solve multi-step addition and subtraction word problems with a set of printable math task cards.
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Number Pattern Task Cards – Addition and Subtraction
Practice identifying the rules of patterns, determining missing numbers, and interpreting word problems with this set of 36 task cards.
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Expanded Notation Puzzles - Decimals
Practice expanded notation using decimals and whole numbers with this set of 28 puzzle pieces.
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Roll It! Operations Game
Use this fun game to practice all four operations and/or order of operations.
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What's Remaining? - Long Division Board Game
A game to play to when learning to solve long division involving remainders.
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We're Going On a Shape Hunt! Graphing Game
Consolidate students' knowledge of 2D shapes while teaching about data collection, recording and graphing!
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems - Match Game
Practice reading, modeling, and solving addition and subtraction word problems with a matching activity.
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Subtraction Using Base 10 Blocks - Worksheet
Subtract two-digit numbers using base-10 blocks with a printable subtraction worksheet.
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Spring "Numberpillars" — Kindergarten Math Center Activity
Match numbers 1-10 with their various visual representations to build a fun mathematical caterpillar!
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Graphing Numerical Equations – Google Slides Interactive Activity
Recognize and analyze patterns in graphs, input-output tables, and equations with this interactive activity.
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Coordinate Grid Mystery Pictures
Practice graphing ordered pairs with this set of differentiated coordinate grid mystery pictures.
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Converting Units of Length – Task Cards
Use ratio reasoning to convert the length of metric and customary units with this set of 24 task cards.
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Rounding Task Cards
Use place value knowledge to round numbers up through the hundred thousands place with this free set of 20 task cards.
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Drawing With Ordered Pairs - House
Students create a house by plotting a set of ordered pairs.
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Tracing Numbers 0-20
Practice writing numbers 0–20 with this tracing activity.
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Tangram Treats - Tangram Puzzles
Have fun learning about shapes with a set of 36 tangram task cards separated into three levels, along with two tangram cut-out templates.
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Snakes and Ladders Game Board Template
Create a fun activity for any subject area with this black-and-white board game template.
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Roll and Round Dice Game
Help your student refine their rounding skills with this set of 7 printable math games.
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Dot Day Division Tarsia Puzzle
Practice dividing two-digit by one-digit numbers with a Dot Day tarsia puzzle.
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Skip Counting by 2,3,4,5, & 10 Mystery Picture
Excerpt: Have your students uncover a mystery picture by solving skip counting problems to and multiply by 2,3,4,5 & 10.
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Making Ten Activity
Practice making 10 using objects, pictorial models, and number sentences with this activity mat.
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3 Digit Subtraction -Mathzee Math Game
Practice subtracting 3-digit numbers with and without regrouping with a fun game of Subtraction Mathzee!
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Comparing Fractions – Sorting Activity
Strengthen fraction comparison skills by sorting cards according to the inequality symbol that makes each statement true.
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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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