Free Math Resources
To use at home and in classrooms
We hope you enjoy these hands-on educational activities that the children in your life are sure to love. Rest assured knowing these curriculums and activities are developed by math and science research and curriculum experts.
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Early Childhood
Head Start on Engineering
Head Start on Engineering is a bilingual, family-centered program that engages preschool children and their parents or caregivers in the engineering design process. Instead of focusing on engineering as a career field, the program highlights the design process as a meaningful and practical skill. It is relevant to everyday family life, helps make engineering feel approachable, and connects easily to early childhood play and learning practices.
SPARKS
The Head Start on Engineering project has introduced a new type of resource for families and teachers: Sparks! These bilingual (Spanish and English) activity ideas are a fun, easy way for families to learn together at home. Each activity supports preschoolers’ development while encouraging family engagement with the engineering design process.
Storytelling Math Books
Storytelling Math Books show that all children can be mathematical thinkers. Stories feature children of color using math as they play, build, and discover the world around them. Each book offers free activities, author chats, and webinars to help explore the concepts further.
Make Connections: You and Me and Math
Make Connections is a collaboration with the YMCA of Silicon Valley that offers adults a fun and easy way to help young children (ages 0-5) build math skills through eleven curriculum units that align with common early childhood themes. Each unite includes activities for ages 2 and up with at-home variations, as well as activities for children under 2 to use in programs or at home.
Elementary
Mixing in Math
Materials to help mix math into everything children do—from playing games to building towers to telling stories to catching up on chores. MiM materials consist of a large bank of activities, games, and projects for ages 2-12 in English and Spanish.
Investigations
Math at Home
Math at Home is a collection of K-5 activities that families can do together. Available in English and Spanish.
Investigations 3 Games Online
The Games Center contains online versions of many of the Investigations 3 games. It can be accessed in English and Spanish.
Math Words and Ideas from Investigations 3
Math Words and Ideas provides a clear, interactive review of different concepts. Many include an animation; all include a “Try It” activity. Available in English or Spanish.
Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics
The Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics is dedicated to opening up discussions about equity, access, identity, and agency in the elementary mathematics classroom. Free resources include a Framework, Teacher Reflection Tools, a Student Reflection Tools, and classroom activities called Excursions.
Middle School
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MPACT
MPACT provides opportunities for students in grades 4 through 7 to engage in computational thinking, spatial reasoning, and mathematical concepts through design and hands-on making projects. MPACT addresses key topics in most state standards for math and national standards for computer science. Students learn concepts and solve problems with real objects they can hold in their hands, not just with words and diagrams on paper. Available for use and adaptation for non-commercial purposes, with a Creative Commons license.
Data Clubs
Data Clubs believes that middle school learners can and should know how to interpret data to make decisions and manipulate data to answer their own questions. Three modules engage them with “big” data — large data sets collected by government agencies, research institutes and international collaborations and curated by the Data Clubs team. The modules give students simple tools for visualizing and analyzing data on topics they care about.
BioRobots
In BioRobots, middle school students explore how animals accomplish different tasks in the natural world, then apply what they learn to design and build their own biomimetic robots. Along the way, they gain experience in robotics and programming, while practicing computational thinking, scientific reasoning, and engineering design skills. The program includes a one-hour activity, a full curriculum, and a variety of supporting resources.
Signing Math and Science
Signing Math & Science uses SigningAvatar® assistive technology to develop illustrated, interactive 3D standards-based sign language dictionaries that offer students in grades K-8 and 9-12 who are deaf and hard of hearing increased access to the same learning opportunities that hearing students enjoy.