We designed active math movements to give your students physical exercise while simultaneously enhancing math skills. These movements do not require any materials and are perfect for short brain breaks throughout your school day!
Our active math movements are broken into two parts – whisper/loud movements and skip counting movements. First, students practice whisper/loud movements to reinforce the intervals in the number line for different multiples. To do this, students whisper the numbers that are not multiples and shouting the numbers that are multiples. As an example for counting by threes, your class would say: 1 (whisper), 2 (whisper), 3 (loud).
Once students have mastered whisper/loud movements, they can move on to skip counting movements. In these movements, we eliminate the whisper part and only skip count. These movements aim to create fun, physical moments during the school day that quickly establish skip counting patterns in young math students’ minds.
We’re sharing three of our favorite whisper/loud movements to practice math below! Practice these activities with any multiple your class is learning or needs more practice with.
Elephant March is a full-body whisper/loud movement and can be the perfect energizer for sleepy brains.
As the school day goes on, many students become fidgety and release energy by tapping. Help your students refocus by turning their tapping into a productive math movement. This movement break can be done quickly while students are sitting at their desks.
To count by twos, we will use two fingers like drumsticks to tap the desk.
At Math & Movement, we believe every moment of the school day can be filled with learning. We have designed specific hallway whisper/loud activities you can do while moving through the school to lunch, the art room, or recess.Â
You perform these hallway math movements quietly by mouthing the whispered numbers and whispering the loud numbers. Clap quietly using the American Sign Language sign for clapping or applause.
To count by fours as quiet airplanes, first line up your students. Follow this movement as students walk through the hallway to your next activity.
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