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There’s just something special about October in the classroom. The excitement of fall themes, the buzz of Halloween energy, and the start of the holiday season. But let’s be honest, between progress reports, parent-teacher conferences, and trying to keep your students focused with all the Halloween candy lying around, it’s a lot. If you’re a busy 1st-3rd grade teacher looking for fun, hands-on, and easy-prep ways to celebrate the season in your math class, I’ve got you covered. These fall math activities and October math worksheets and games are teacher favorites straight from the Inner Circle Math Membership, perfect for keeping your students engaged while cutting your planning and prep time in half.
Fall is such an exciting time of year (hello crisp fall weather, pumpkin spice everything, and finally not sweating at recess!). But it’s also hectic. There’s always so much going on at school and at home between parent teacher conferences, fall activities, sports, and other extra-curriculars.
You want to bring those seasonal vibes into your lessons, but finding time to prep fall math crafts or Halloween math games between grading and lesson plans is nearly impossible.
You don’t want more work and more hours spent planning and prepping after school and on the weekends. You need resources that are ready to print, not another Pinterest project that requires an hour of cutting and laminating.
That’s where the Inner Circle comes in as a total lifesaver!
With the Inner Circle, you don’t have to choose between seasonal math fun and your free time. You can have it all at your fingertips (with options for differentiation) so you can simply search for what you need, print it, and go!
Here are some of my favorite fall math activities included in the Inner Circle Math Membership, all designed to make your October math block hands-on, standards-aligned, and stress-free.
First up is an Inner Circle exclusive, my monthly resource guides for 1st-3rd grade! These handy guides highlight popular seasonal and guided math resources to use during the month of October. With clickable links provided, you can quickly and easily find and download the resource within the membership.
The monthly math station lesson plans for 1st and 2nd grade help ease stress, as I’ve created a complete math station plan for you following my math station routine! Plus, you can use it year after year. Head on over to your grade level math stations and download your file with the October set. The table includes fully editable text so you can make adjustments as needed.
Number webs are a simple and fun activity to help students practice various addition facts. They’ll simply follow the web to make different equations, writing them on the line in between. It’s perfect for math warm-ups, small group practice, or even independent practice.
You’ll also find number webs inside the Inner Circle in other fall themes like: apples, candy corn, trick or treat, ghosts, spiders, and pumpkins.
This pumpkin place value fall math craft is a classroom favorite! Students will cut out the fall truck template and write a number. Then, on their pumpkins, they will write their number multiple ways and glue them onto the bed of the truck. This gives them the opportunity to practice place value with 2-digit, 3-digit, and 4-digit numbers. This pumpkin place value craft also makes the cutest hallway display!
This fall math craft is a little spooky with a lot of learning. Students compare numbers using greater than/less than symbols while creating their own adorable bats. It gives your students the opportunity to practice addition and subtraction with regrouping and comparing numbers. Students will cut out the bat template and then select two math questions to answer and compare. Plus, you can set up this fall math craft as a simple hallway display that includes multiple math concepts and it can be integrated with other subject areas and thematic units while studying bats!
Get ready for a burst of energy and a little friendly competition in the classroom! Simply project the digital math fact races board onto your whiteboard, split your students into two teams, and have them race to solve addition and subtraction problems with Halloween-themes. There’s also a multiplication and division option as well as fall-themed math fact races that make math fact practice feel like a game.
Need a quick and easy independent math activity that still reinforces key skills? These October color-by-number Halloween math worksheets are a relaxing, colorful way for students to practice math facts. Plus, there’s a twist! Students will choose one math problem to write a word problem for on the back of their page. These are perfect for sub plans, morning work, or independent math practice.
From ordering numbers to solving addition and subtraction problems and practicing place value, the October Math Centers inside the Inner Circle give your students multiple ways to practice key skills independently, all in fun fall themes of course! These centers are perfect for spiral review, encouraging independence, and are super engaging for students.
With centers available for 1st and 2nd grades, there are tons of options for differentiation.
Make place value review a treat this fall with Candy Corn Capades, a set of 8 engaging activities designed to help your 1st-3rd graders review key place value skills, all while solving a sweet mystery!
This 47-page resource features a mix of worksheets, task cards, and one-page games that reinforce understanding of tens and ones in an interactive, low-prep way.
Here’s how it works:
Each Candy Corn Capade focuses on reviewing place value skills up to 999 through quick, engaging tasks. After finishing each activity, students solve a Corn Clue to reveal a number. Once all clues are complete, they’ll plug the numbers into a special key to crack the final riddle, a fun and memorable way to wrap up your place value unit!
Use all eight activities in a single review day, or spread them out throughout the fall. The flexible format lets you adapt the Capades to your classroom schedule and students’ needs.
Make addition practice fun, hands-on, and a little sweet this fall with this candy corn math station game! Use real candy corn or manipulatives to build various addition problems. Addition cards, a direction page, and a recording sheet are included.
Practicing arrays with your 2nd and 3rd grade students? Add a fun twist by using candy corn to build arrays!
With this fall math activity, there are two options provided for easy differentiation.
Option 1: Use candy corn or other manipulatives to build the array and write the matching multiplication sentence.
Option 2: Write the multiplication sentence that matches each array.
Brewing Up Subtraction Facts is a fun FREE Halloween math game! With the true/false sorting mats in front of them, students will draw a subtraction card, find the difference, and sort the card onto the appropriate mat. If the difference is correct, it goes on the true mat. If it is not, it goes on the false mat. Students record their answers on the recording sheet.
You can try this math center activity out for free by filling out the form below. Check your inbox and it’ll be delivered right away!
What makes these fall math activities even better? They’re all part of the exclusive seasonal math activities collection found inside the Inner Circle Math Membership.
Each month, members get access to a growing library of hands-on, seasonal math activities that fit right into your existing curriculum. You’ll always have something new, engaging, and on-theme, without ever searching for hours on Pinterest or TPT again!
And did I mention you’ll be saving TONS of money, too?! For just $5 for your first month using code TRYIT, you’ll get instant access to all of my math resources for 1st-3rd grade, including guided math units, monthly centers, math crafts, seasonal math activities, the complete worksheet library, and MORE!
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You can also find seasonal resources in my TPT store and in my website store.
