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Monster Math Games & Activities – with loads of free printables for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade

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I love creating themed math to go with the letter we’re learning!  We’ve been learning about the letter M this October, so a round-up of monster math games and activities seemed perfect.  Browse through this list to find free math activities for kids from preschool through first grade!

Monster Math for preschool, kindergarten and first grade - the measured mom

 1 – Counting, One-to-One Correspondence, Subitizing, Matching – Monster Dice Match

Check out this giant round-up of FREE monster math activities for kids from preschool-grade 1!

Your preschooler can practice a lot of basic math skills with this simple game.  Each of you uses a game board. Take turns rolling a numbered die.  Then cover the matching square on the board. The first to cover his entire board, wins.  You can read more about it and get four different game boards in my original post.  If you want to adapt this game for a younger preschooler, roll a dotted die and just practice matching it to one on the game board.

2 – Counting, One-to-One Correspondence, Matching  – Monster Memory

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 My Three loves matching games, so I built on that by creating this matching memory game to help him practice counting objects up to 10. You can get the free download from my original post.

3 – Subtraction – Read and Subtract

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A few months ago, I created Ten Little Monsters, a  free book for early readers.  I used my Pink Pueblo clip art to make a set of monsters, cut them out, and used them as manipulatives to teach my Three about subtraction.  As we read the book, we counted the set of monsters and took one away each time a monster left.  He counted the new total each time.  You can get your own free copy of Ten Little Monsters by visiting this post.

4 – Addition – Monster Mash Roll and Color

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My Four and Six loved this activity. They took turns rolling two dice, adding them together, and coloring the sum.  The one who colored the entire board first, won.

Check out this giant round-up of FREE monster math activities for kids from preschool-grade 1!

While they were playing this, my Three used a simpler version with numbers only from 1-6. He rolled the die and colored the matching number. I was quite surprised when he completed the whole page all on his own! Get four free monster game boards from Little Miss Kindergarten.

5- Odd/Even – Monster Math Odd & Even Packet

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I just love this cute printable from Teach With Me!  My first grader sorted the monster cards by odd and even.  She placed odd numbers on Odd Twad. Even numbers went on Even Shteven.  We used glass gems to help determine which numbers were odd and even. She also learned that you can tell if a number is odd or even by looking at the last digit.

6 – Addition – Missing Addend Monster Flip Cards

Check out this giant round-up of FREE monster math activities for kids from preschool-grade 1!

My just-turned-Five used these cards to find the missing addends from groups up to 10.  He solved some problems in his head and used manipulatives on the tougher cards. You can read more about it and get the missing addend flip cards from my original post.

7 – Counting, One-to-One Correspondence, Number Recognition – Monster Count & Clip Cards

Check out this giant round-up of FREE monster math activities for kids from preschool-grade 1!

I have a weakness for count-and-clip cards — so simple, but so appealing for little hands. My Three practiced counting monster groups up to 10. My Five practiced counting sets from 11-20.  Get your free printable here.

8 – Counting, One-to-One Correspondence, Subitizing   — Say it, Count it, Write it

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I love this free math mat from Learning and Teaching with Preschoolers!  I laminated the board and got out a dry erase marker, googly eyes, and a die.  My Five rolled the die, added the correct number of googly eyes, and wrote the corresponding numeral in the box.  Then he erased the number and played again.

9- Patterns – Monster Pattern Cards

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My Three definitely needed work with patterns!  Here’s what it sounded like:

“Let’s look at our pattern. We have red, green, red, green… what’s next?”
“Blue!”
“Well, no, there aren’t any blue here.  We want to keep the same pattern. Let’s try again.  Red, green, red, green…”
“Yellow!”

It was all starting to come together after some more practice. 🙂  Get these from the monster pack from 2 Teaching Mommies.

 10 – Ordering – Monster Math Ordering 3 Numbers

Check out this giant round-up of FREE monster math activities for kids from preschool-grade 1!

Since we’d done a lot of work with the monster hundreds chart (see earlier in this post), my Five had gotten a pretty good handle on reading numbers from 1-100. The question was – did he understand them? Could he order them from least to greatest?  While he sometimes made some mistakes, he caught himself and did a great job ordering sets of three. To make this more challenging, you could give your child a larger set of numbers to put in order.  Or set out a large set and give him a number to fit in its correct place.

You can download these monster cards for free by clicking on this link.

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45 Comments

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  4. Emilie

    Hi ! I really like your website ! I use your math activity with my class. I’m in french so I can’t use all the others activities.

    I have a question for you, where do you take your monsters (picture) ? My class is the class of the little monsters and i really like your monsters !

    Sorry for my english, it’s not perfect !
    Thanks !
    Emilie

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  5. Debbie Abbott

    I was so very excited to find your website. I teach in a self contained k-2 classroom with students that have Autism. Everything that I have printed from your site works fantastic with my students. Its easy to prepare and works great in my task boxes. I have shared your website with my teaching partner who is also now hooked.

    Keep up the great job!!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Debbie! Thank you so much for your comment. I’m always so pleased to hear that children with autism are enjoying my resources. I really appreciate you sharing my website!

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  6. Shannon Kendall

    I am a student at university in Australia and have just found your website. These games and activities are awesome! You’re really helping me build up my resources. Thank you for being so kind and sharing them for free. Will be recommending you to my Uni friends.
    Thanks!

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  10. Helen

    Wow, I love your ideas! I have just finished making the Frankenstein counting activity for my Kindergartens, I am certain it will be a hit.! Thanks for sharing your wonderful site and now off to start looking at all your pins!

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  13. Kristina

    I cannot get over how much I’ve loved all of these! My kiddo is so excited to be doing them and we are having so much fun. I normally avoid linkies (too much to look at, not enough time), but I’m so glad I looked at all of these! Thanks for the share!

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  3. […] 31. Monster math games and activities by The Measured Mom Loads of different maths games and activities here with links to the free printables as well. Some of the skills these freebies help develop include: counting, one-to-one correspondence, subitizing, matching, subtraction, addition, odd and even numbers, problem solving, number recognition, patterns and ordering. […]

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  9. […] 31. Monster math games and activities by The Measured Mom Loads of different maths games and activities here with links to the free printables as well. Some of the skills these freebies help develop include: counting, one-to-one correspondence, subitizing, matching, subtraction, addition, odd and even numbers, problem solving, number recognition, patterns and ordering. […]

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