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Families

These resources are for a single family: Use these math games, puzzles, activities, and instructions to enjoy playing with math together.

Activities for Families

For ages 0 to 8 – These are educationally-sequenced math games, puzzles, and activities for a family to play with together.

EFM Mobile App

The EFM mobile app contains all our activities, storybooks, learning steps, and playdates in one place.

Storybooks

Mix reading and math using these annotated storybooks with your children.

Games for Focused Practice

Organized by typic, these games provide practice with specific math skills.

Activity Playing Cards

These decks have short descriptions of a family math activity on every card.

Math Learning Steps

These are 50 math learning steps going from birth up through single-digit multiplication.

Family Events

These math events bring early math to a group of families.

Playdates

This has 50 monthly math playdates for a group of 2 to 8 families.

Family Nights

This is a kit for doing an event for 8 to 50 families to help them learn about the benefits of doing early math.

Family Math Fests

This is a kit for putting on math events for groups of families in libraries or other public spaces.

Educators

These games, puzzles, and instructional materials are for use in the classroom.

Math Games

These ~100 classroom math games playfully practice math skills.

Puzzles of the Week

These ~200 K-5 math puzzles will put your students in the thinking zone.

Puzzle Playing Cards

These K-3 and 2-5 decks have a math puzzle on every card.

ESM Mobile App

This has mentoring and resources for beginning and experienced early math teachers.

Additional Resources

These resources do not fit neatly into the family or educator categories.

Newsletter

The EFM monthly newsletter has activities and educational musings.

Newsletter Signup

Sign up to receive the EFM monthly newsletter.

Placemats

This fledgling project places fun math activities in front of children while they wait.

Kitchen Table Math Books

The Kitchen Table Math series of 3 ½ PDFs covers beginning counting through multi-digit arithmetic.

External Resources

This is a preliminary list of free early math resources on the web.

Videos

These videos show ways an adult and child can play with math together.

About EFM

These pages give you information about EFM, its mission, and ways we might collaborate.

Our Mission

This is what we believe in and are attempting to do.

Who We Are

This has a list of many of the people who support EFM’s mission.

Help Us

We can use your help! Let’s work together to help the children of the world.

Credits

This is a partial list of all the wonderful people who have helped EFM over the years.

Contact Us

We love connecting with kindred spirits. Please write!

Donate

We don’t pay salaries, but we do have bills to pay. Please help us keep the lights on and make special projects possible.
Read, Count, Play – Every Child, Every Day!
  • Families
    • Activities for Families
    • EFM Mobile App
    • Storybooks
    • Games for Focused Practice
    • Activity Playing Cards
    • Math Learning Steps
  • Family Events
    • Playdates
    • Family Nights
    • Family Math Fests
  • Educators
    • Math Games
    • Puzzles of the Week
    • Puzzle Playing Cards
    • ESM Mobile App
  • Additional Resources
    • Newsletter
    • Newsletter Signup
    • Placemats
    • Kitchen Table Math
    • External Resources
    • Videos
  • About EFM
    • Our Mission
    • Who We Are
    • Help Us
    • Credits
    • Contact Us
    • Donate

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Whose Shape is this Anyway?

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Cutting Symmetric Shapes

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Smallest Single Number

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Counterexamples

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Follow the Leader

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Same and Different

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String Number Line

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Which One Doesn’t Belong

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Line ‘em Up

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Families
  • Activities for Families
  • EFM Mobile App
  • Storybooks
  • Activity Playing Cards
  • Games for Focused Practice
  • Math Learning Steps
  • Families
  • Activities for Families
  • EFM Mobile App
  • Storybooks
  • Activity Playing Cards
  • Games for Focused Practice
  • Math Learning Steps
Family Events
  • Playdates
  • Family Nights
  • Family Math Fests
  • Family Events
  • Playdates
  • Family Nights
  • Family Math Fests
Educators
  • Math Activities for Educators
  • Puzzles of the Week
  • Puzzle Playing Cards
  • ESM Mobile App
  • Educators
  • Math Activities for Educators
  • Puzzles of the Week
  • Puzzle Playing Cards
  • ESM Mobile App
Additional Resources
  • Newsletter
  • Newsletter Signup
  • Placemats
  • Kitchen Table Math
  • External Resources
  • Videos
  • Additional Resources
  • Newsletter
  • Newsletter Signup
  • Placemats
  • Kitchen Table Math
  • External Resources
  • Videos
About
  • Our Mission
  • Who We Are
  • Donate
  • Help Us
  • Credits
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Our Mission
  • Who We Are
  • Donate
  • Help Us
  • Credits
  • Contact Us
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