Teachers: Check Out these Amazing Free Math Assessment Materials

At the beginning of the school year and throughout the year it’s important to have a good handle on where your students’ skills are, what they already know and what they might need more help with.

Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station has a great collection of free math assessment tools for beginning math assessment. It covers things like:

number recognition and formation
rote counting
shape identification
color identification
position words
patterns
exploring numbers

There are printables for worksheets and other materials to use in your assessments, as well as a form to fill out as they work through it. This is a wonderful resource and parents could use parts of it, too, to check how their kids are doing on early math concepts before school if they wanted. It’s great for homeschoolers, too.

Do you have any tools or tricks for math assessments? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo via Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station.]

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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