This low-prep back to school math activity gives students the opportunity to explore their math strengths, challenges, and goals in a fun and familiar format. Shaped like a video game controller, the foldable includes eight interactive sections that guide students through self-reflection while giving you helpful insight into how they view themselves as math learners.

What’s Included:

• Printable video game-themed foldable

• 8 interactive sections:

  • Name & Level

  • Power-Ups (Math Strengths)

  • Math Battles (Challenges)

  • Secret Numbers

  • Math Goal for the Year

  • Level Up Letter to the Teacher

  • Game Tips for the Teacher

  • Ready to Press Start

• Clear teacher directions

• Black-and-white, print-and-go format

This back to school math activity is ideal for morning work, math centers, early finishers, or as part of your first-week classroom routines. It also makes a fun and meaningful bulletin board or student display.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Perfect for grades 3–6

• Encourages math reflection and goal setting

• Supports student voice, SEL, and math identity

• Easy to prep and use

• A fun twist on traditional All About Me activities

Start your school year with a back to school math activity that blends fun, creativity, and connection—all while helping your students see themselves as capable, confident mathematicians.

Want to purchase on TPT?:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Math-Activity-All-About-Me-Video-Game-Foldable-Grades-36-13645514

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Each game is designed to reinforce important math skills through interactive play. With themes like the beach, ice cream, and camping, students stay focused and excited—even on those wiggly, pre-vacation days! These games are perfect for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders who need extra practice with fractions, multiplication, word problems, and rounding.

🎲 What’s Included:

1. Flip-Flop Fractions – Students roll, move, and match fractions to their equivalents on seashells.

2. Ice Cream Multiplication – Solve multiplication facts as you work your way to a sweet treat!

3. Race to the Beach – Solve word problems using all four operations while you race to the ocean.

4. Race to Camp “Round-A-Lot” – Practice rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 in this fun camping-themed game.

✅ Why You’ll Love These Summer Math Games:

• All games are one page – quick to print and easy to use

• Perfect for centers, small groups, partner play, or summer school

• Designed for grades 2–4

• Targets key skills like fractions, multiplication, word problems, and rounding

• No prep required – just print and play!

Whether you’re teaching summer school, assigning summer packets, or just looking to keep math fresh at the end of the year, these summer math games for elementary students are a fun and effective way to keep kids learning.

📥 Download, print, and play—math has never felt so fun!

Want to purchase it on TPT?

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Games-for-Skill-Review-Summer-Themed-Math-Games-13572307

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This creative craft comes with everything you need to create your own unique number using place value blocks or base ten blocks, all cleverly housed in adorable popcorn buckets.

What you’ll get:

Templates for the place value bucket and popcorn kernels

Base ten block templates to create the number of your choice

Poppin’ Place Value Recording Sheet t show the number created in standard, word, and expanded forms.

Teachers will delight in using this popcorn-themed craft for bulletin board displays. Showcase the colorful popcorn buckets adorned with the students’ creative numbers, and watch as curiosity and excitement fill the room. This display will undoubtedly be a highlight of the learning space, capturing the attention of students and visitors alike.

Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student pages, hand each student their popcorn templates and be ready to have an engaging math block with your students!

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What you’ll get:

• 25 different apples for students to make. Each child in your class can have a different number.
• 2-digit, 3-digit, 4-digit, 5-digit , and 6-digit numbers.
• Step by step instructions with pictures.

Skills included:

• word form
• expanded form
• value of a digit
• rounding
• adding thousands and hundreds

You will LOVE the final product and your students will be so proud of their creations. These 3D Place Value Apples will decorate your classroom or bulletin board for the entire Fall Season.

Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student pages, hand each student 4 pages, have them solve and color, and show them the step by step instructions sheet on how to fold and glue the apples to make a 3D craft!

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What you’ll get:

• 32 different multiplication and division problems. Choose the ones you want. Pick a skill or combine both!
• 9 different snow globes.
• Blank pages to create your own.

Skills included:

• multiplication facts
• division facts

You will LOVE the final product and your students will be so proud of their creations. These colorful snow globes will decorate your classroom or bulletin board for the entire winter season.

Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student pages, hand each student some glue, scissors, and crayons and enjoy their math snow globes!

Here is what teachers like you have said:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”This was a simple, yet engaging project. I was able to differentiate and the end result was great! Thank you!” Gerry G.

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Standards included:

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This Back to School math escape room activity targets multiple math skills. Questions include addition, subtraction, place value, and word problems. I have leveled the tasks to be used with multiple grade levels. Most appropriate for grades 2-4. Since this is a BACK TO SCHOOL activity some tasks are purely used for icebreakers so no math skills are used.

BACK TO SCHOOL MATH ESCAPE ROOM

An Escape Room is an adventure in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints, and strategies to complete the objectives at hand.

In this Escape Room, students are presented with a situation. It is the first day of school and they have been locked inside the auditorium and must open all locks so they can meet their teacher. In order to do so, they must solve 4 puzzles. Each puzzle gives them a key, which the teacher holds, and gives to each team as they successfully complete each puzzle.

Play in small groups. The teacher forms teams. I suggest no more than 5 students in a team.

Everything you need for this games has been provided. As a result, you don’t need to purchase any keys, locks, or anything of that sort.

♥Why this game?♥

Escape Rooms are highly engaging for the students. Their task is to figure out clues in order to escape the room, in this case they are escaping the devious plans of a gang of thieves. They ALSO compete in teams which adds to the engaging nature of this game.

♥Includes:♥

4 puzzles, each with a variety of questions

Answer Key

Teacher Instructions for Setting up Escape Room

Labels

Student Recording Sheet

Color and black and white version

CHECK OUT SOME OTHER ESCAPE ROOMS:

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Do you need a beautiful, eye-catching, back to school ABOUT ME activity? Your students will enjoy creating this BACK TO SCHOOL ABOUT ME AGAMOGRAPH. This All About Me activity yields a beautiful 3D display that can stay in your classroom the whole year!! An Agamograph is a picture that morphs into another when you look at it from a different angle.

I have provided over 10 different pictures to create unique CRAFS for your students. They can mix and match the pictures. Some of the pictures are:

• I love School
• I love Math
• I love Reading
• I love my Dog
• I ove Camping
• I love video games, etc

After they create their agamographs, they fill out the ABOUT ME page and glue or tape their PICTURE to the page.

This back to school about me AGAMOGRAPH is great for:

First week of school

Small Groups

Bulletin Board and Classroom Displays

Detailed Instructions are provided! Great for students from first through 5th grades.

To purchase this activity on TPT, use this link.

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This CUBES Math Strategy digital resource focuses on solving word problems using the CUBES math strategy. Students can digitally circle the numbers, underline the question, box the key words, evaluate and eliminate, and solve and check. This digital resource is a Google Drive Assignment to share with your students through Google Classroom.

♥Includes:♥

◊ 24 digital slides

◊ Directions on how to download resource

♥Ways to Use this CUBES Resource♥

• During math centers.
• As a homework assignment
• For early finishers
• As sub work

What is the CUBES Math Strategy?

The CUBES math strategy is a tool teachers use to provide a step by step guide for problem solving. Each letter in CUBES stands for a simple step to provide a path for those students who freeze when they are faced with a math word problem.

C – Circle the Numbers

U- Underline the Question

B – Box the Key Words

E – Evaluate and Eliminate

S – Solve

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This is a Digital Escape Room bundle targeting standards from grade 3. The bundle contains 3 Escape Rooms: Review of Second Grade Skills, Single-Digit Multiplication, Place Value, and Rounding.

Your students will be on the edge of their seats while finding clues and solving puzzles with these escape rooms. The competitive nature of these games will have your students super engaged and asking for more!

An Escape Room is an adventure in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints, and strategies to complete the objectives at hand.

The activities can either be played in small groups or independently .

These escape rooms are digital. No copies or laminating are needed. No prep. Simply give the students the link provided and that’s it. No google accounts needed, no forced copies, no assigning in google classroom. All students need is a device with internet access.

♥Each Escape Room Includes:♥

◊ 4 challenges embedded in a google site. Some of the challenges include up to 5 questions on a google form.

◊ Videos , puzzles, and real photos.

◊ Answer Keys

◊ Teacher Instructions and explanation of all the challenges.

THE 3 ESCAPE ROOMS INCLUDED ARE:

Single Digit Multiplication Digital Escape Room

Place Value and Rounding Digital Escape Room

Back to School Grade 3 Math Digital Escape Room

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