Fun Factor

Basic Skills for Big Kids.

Math gaps only grow. Let's close them before it's too late.

We know kids are way behind. Give middle schoolers a hands-on way to master the math. Fun Factor activities bring numbers to life in students’ hands to build confidence and curiosity.

It’s perfect for:

  • Any classroom that needs a math boost
  • Small group or resource room instruction
  • Math enrichment periods
  • One-on-one tutoring
 
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Each activity includes digital instructions and materials for up to 4 students. 

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Piece of Cake

Students use different fractions of paper cakes to create wholes, then figure out how to share them equally with friends.

Skills: Compare equivalent fractions and add fractions with like and unlike denominators.
Standards Covered
: 3.NF.A.1, 3.NF.A.3, 4.NF.A, 4.NF.B, 5.NF.B.3
What’s Included: Pack of printed cakes, 16 total
Price: $14.99

Band on Tour

Students travel to US cities on their big concert tour. See who earns the most by calculating ticket sales and trip expenses, strengthening decimal skills.

Skills: Add, subtract and multiply decimals.
Standards Covered
: 5.NBT.A.3, 5.NBT.B.7
What’s Included: Game sheets and all game pieces
Price: $17.99

Frac-Jack

Students compete to arrange fraction cards with different denominators, then play again mixing in percentages and decimal.

Skills: Become trilingual in fractions, percentages and decimals.
Standards Covered: 3.NF.A.1, 3.NF.A.3, 4.NF.A, 5.NBT.A.3 
What’s Included: 1 deck of 60 cards
Price: $4.99

Multiplication and Division

Prime Time

Students identify prime numbers, then use them as a colorful code to factor composite numbers.

Skills: Learn all multiples of single digits up to 100 to master long division.
Standards Covered
: 3.OA.A.1, 4.OA.B.4, 4.NBT.B.5, 5.OA.B.3
What’s Included: Printed templates
Price: $1.99

Cowabunga

Students build fences around rectangular cow-patterned “fields” and discover that area and perimeter are different concepts.

Skills: Understand perimeter as linear measurement and area as the space inside a shape, measured in square units.
Standards Covered
: 3.MD.C.6, 3.MD.C.7, 3.MD.D.8, 4.MD.A.3
What’s Included: 1″ cow squares (100 pack), pre-cut string
Price: $14.99

Block Party

Students divide a 2-digit number of Legos to see quotients and remainders in action.     

Skills: Dividing a 2-digit number to get a 2-digit quotient.
Standards Covered: 4.NBT.B.6
What’s Included: 210 Lego pieces and dice
Price: $17.99

Square Dance

Demystify multi-digit multiplication and place value.

Skills: Multiplying two-digit numbers using partial products and arrays.
Standards Covered: 3.NBT.A.3, 4.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.B.5 
What’s Included: Printed templates and dice
Price: $1.99

Adding, Subtracting and Place Value

Cowabunga

Students build fences around rectangular cow-patterned “fields” and practice multiplication as repeat addition.

Skills: Practice addition and repeat addition by exploring area and perimeter.
Standards Covered
: 3.MD.C.6, 3.MD.C.7, 3.MD.D.8, 4.MD.A.3
What’s Included: 1″ cow squares (100 pack), pre-cut string
Price: $14.99

Block Party

Students group Legos into 10s and 100s to reinforce place value when adding and subtracting.   

Skills: Adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers.
Standards Covered: 1.NBT.B.2, 2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.A.1, 2.NBT.B.7
What’s Included: 210 Lego pieces and dice
Price: $17.99

Time of Your Life

Students learn the math behind time zones, then compute flight times and zone changes to make it to the Super Bowl!    

Skills: Do mathematical operations on analog clock time and understand elapsed time. 
Standards Covered: 2.MD.C.7, 3.MD.A.1
What’s Included: Game sheets and all game pieces
Price: $14.99