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    It’s Halloween, and your treat bag is full of trick-or-treat candy. If you have 8 Snickers bars, and three times as many Tootsie Rolls, how many more Tootsie Rolls do you have than Snickers bars? Here are some ideas for mixing a little math fun into everyone’s favorite holiday, Halloween!

    		Halloween Math Resource Handout for Classroom or Homeschool: Just $2.00

    Education.com: Math Halloween5 stars

    "Halloween worksheets are an excellent tool to help you and your kids get into the spooky spirit! These Halloween worksheets for kids have been made by experts in the education field, and include both educational and purely fun exercises." These free math printables include addition, subtraction, word problems, counting, fractions, multiplication, patterns, and money. An outstanding collection, and is one of two picks of the week.



    Math Drills: Halloween Math Worksheets5 stars

    "Be careful of the monsters on the worksheets; they sometimes bite. Instead of labeling the Halloween math worksheets with letters, we've labeled them with scary words. If you happen to hear a noise when you click on one of the worksheets, we assure you, it is all in your head." This fun collection also earned a pick of week because of their excellent assortment of worksheets, and the inclusion of geometry, probability and other middle-school level topics (along with counting, sorting and ordering for younger grades.)

    Mathwire.com: Math Activity Themes: Pumpkin Math5 stars

    "Fall is the season that students begin the search for their own 'perfect pumpkin' so these activities were created to help students develop mathematical concepts using a pumpkin theme." For elementary grades, these activities include graphing, symmetry, a dice game, measuring, and other problem-solving challenges. In addition, there are links to pumpkin picture books that are excellent companions to the activities.

    My Weblets: Halloween Math 5 stars

    Eighty-two Halloween Math worksheets for elementary kids organized into twenty-four categories, such as Color the Number, Money Addition, Round to the Nearest Hundredth, and Convert Decimals to Percentages. Although the worksheet pages look a bit busy in the browser, if you use the "Print" function, you will get a nice ad-free worksheet to print. Look for the "Print" button near the top of the page, just below the Math Worksheets title.

    Pinterest: Halloween Math Ideas5 stars

    Pinterest boards are always a fun way to discover new resources. This board is a collaboration by more than 223 pinners. Their rules are to pin at least one free idea for every paid one, so be warned that not all of these links lead to free resources. If you are new to Pinterest, remember that clicking twice on any of the thumbnail images (also known as pins) will take you to the originating website. Create your own Pinterest board to save any pins (click on Pin It) you want to keep handy.

    		Halloween Math Resource Handout for Classroom or Homeschool: Just $2.00



    Honorable Mentions

    The following links are either new discoveries or sites that didn't make it into my newspaper column because of space constraints. Enjoy!

    Halloween Math

    Halloween Themed Math Pages

    Preschool and Kindergarten Halloween Math Worksheets

    The Story of the Not So Great Pumpkin!!!


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    Feldman, Barbara. "Halloween Math." Surfnetkids. Feldman Publishing. 19 Oct. 2021. Web. 7 Nov. 2024. <https://www.surfnetkids.com/resources/halloween-math/ >.


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    By . Originally published October 19, 2021. Last modified October 19, 2021.

    Filed Under: History, Holidays, Holidays, Math, Math

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