The 10 Best Free Homeschool Math Resources for Grades 1-9
A Post By: Anthony Persico
Homeschooling your kids is no easy task, especially when it comes to teaching math.
If your kids and/or students are home from school for an extended period of time, then the following collection of free homeschool math resources will ensure that they are continuing to maintain, sharpen, and develop their math skills outside of the classroom.
The following list of super fun and engaging resources covers math topics typically covered in grades 1-9 and ranges from elementary operations all the way to Algebra 1 and Geometry.
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The Best Free Homeschool Math Resources and Activities for Grades 1-9
Practicing and learning math from home starts with having access to the right resources.
1. Free Math Worksheets — Are you looking for a huge collection of free topic- and grade-level-specific math worksheets to help your kids keep their math skills sharp while away from school? These free pdf math worksheets are easy to print and include full answer keys—they are perfect for practicing and maintaining skills related to topics including multiplication, fractions, decimals, solving equations, graphing, and more!
2. Free Math Puzzles — Are you concerned that your kids will not be interested in working on math activities that resemble what they do every day in school? If so, try sharing some fun emoji math puzzles with them. These super fun puzzles require students to find the value that each emoji represents. They are an excellent resource for getting your kids to think mathematically and apply their understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Click here to access 17 Fun and Printable Math Puzzles for Elementary and Middle School Students
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Emoji math puzzles are a fun and engaging way for your kids to practice their math skills.
3. Free Math Video Lessons — Are your kids visual learners? If so, take advantage of our ever-growing animated math lesson library on YouTube, which currently shares over 100 free video lessons for students in grades 1-12. The library covers topics ranging from basic multiplication to solving equations and everything in between. A few of our most popular video lessons include:
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4. Math Brain Teasers and Riddles — Kids easily grow bored with repetitive and predictable worksheets. Challenging math riddles—like the famous handshake problem—are great for engaging kids to think critically and apply their math and reasoning skills in creative ways.
Click here to access 10 Super Fun Math Riddles for Kids (with Answers)
5. Multiplication Tables and Area Models—If you’re kids struggle with multiplication, then exploring and working with multiplication table and area model puzzles is a great way to reinforce their skills and help them to develop deep conceptual understanding.
If you’re new to how area models work, this short video is very helpful.
And here are a bunch of free Multiplication Table Practice Problem worksheets.
6. Pop Culture Math Activities —You can easily get your kids excited about learning math by having them work on some pop culture math activities. You can use my popular math activities involving The Avengers, Star Wars, Baby Yoda, and Nintendo’s Super Mario to channel student interest in movies and video games into meaningful learning experiences.
7. An Awesome Way to Teach Kids Fractions — Parents and math teachers of all levels know that many students fail to gain a deep understanding of fractions and decimals. Creating fraction kits is an effective strategy for getting students to explore the idea of equivalent fractions and acquire a conceptual grasp of the topic, which is critical for being successful at higher levels of math. Once students master this topic, they are better equipped to perform more complex tasks like converting a decimal into a fraction and understanding equivalent fractions.
One of the best activities for exploring fractions is making a Fraction Kit! This is a super fun project that only requires markers, paper, and a scissor.
Click here for a video tutorial of how to do the Fraction Kit activity with your kids.
Making a Fraction Kit is one of the best hands-on math activities to do with your kids at home!
8. Which One Doesn’t Belong? — If you are looking to have your kids engage with some more open-ended, visual, and thought-provoking math activities, try having them work on Which One Doesn’t Belong? (WODB) activities. They are great for instantly sparking creative and critical student thinking. If you haven’t tried WODB activities yet, give them a try and watch your student engagement skyrocket!
And click here to access a bunch of free WODB activities.
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9. Two Truths and One Lie! — My students love Two Truths and One Lie (2T1L) activities and they are my go-to resource for shaking things up when my kids are getting bored. This collection of activities will help you to open your lessons with strong hooks that will keep your kids on their toes and excited for whatever comes next.
2T1L activities work like this: students are presented with three mathematical statements (only two of which are true) and they have to identify which statement is a lie and justify why their choice is correct.
Click here to learn more about 2T1L activities and to access a bunch of free graphics.
10. Math Coloring Pages — While I’m not a fan of busy work, you may find some benefit in using math coloring pages to have your kids practice their math skills AND kill some extra time coloring in the puzzles after they have finished solving them.
Click here to get free math coloring pages for grades 3 and 4.
Click here to get free math coloring pages for grades 5 and 6.
Click here to get free math coloring pages for grades 1 through 8.
We also offer a complete math coloring book: 101 Math Puzzles for Kids Coloring Book for Ages 8+ available as a PDF download. You can get yours by clicking here. And click here to access sample pages from the book.
The above 10 Homeschool Math Resources make for a great starter kit for helping your kids practice and learn math while away from school. If you want more free math resources and activities like the ones above in your inbox every week, subscribe to our mailing list here.
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Anthony is the lead educator and founder of Mashup Math. He lives in Denver, Colorado and is also a YouTube for Education partner. Follow him on Twitter at @mashupmath.
