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:
- Small group or resource room instruction
- Math enrichment periods
- Any flex period that needs a math boost
- One-on-one tutoring
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Each activity includes digital instructions and materials for up to 4 students. As part of its charitable mission, Bedtime Math subsidizes the cost of this program, which is available only to public schools and accredited private schools in the US.
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
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
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
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
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
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
Students divide a 2-digit number of bricks 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 interlocking bricks and dice
Price: $17.99
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
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
Students group bricks 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 interlocking bricks and dice
Price: $17.99
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