Activities for Upper Elementary Page

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These activities and resources were chosen especially for students in the upper elementary grades.  The key to be considered upper elementary is a full understanding of place value so that the students can work with multi-digit numbers in a meaningful way. Many of the activities on this page expect students to be able to compute with numbers using procedures that involve this understanding of place value, so that is why I grouped these activities here. It is just a general rule of thumb, and younger students are welcome to try any activities they think they may enjoy.
Some of these activities need certain software in order to run correctly (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader).  Most of these software programs can be downloaded for free.

On-Line Games and Activities Suggested by TERC – Investigations in Number, Data and Space
Links to games and activities that are mathematically worthwhile and, we hope, interesting and engaging to students in the given grade bands.

Internet 4 Classrooms: I think this is a great place to start if you are looking for an activity that works on a specific concept or skill because they have selected specific activities from many different websites and sorted them by math topics. The link is to the math portion, but they also have a similar listing of activities for Language Arts topics.

There are also pages for the 6th through 8th grades as well. Use the arrow icons at the top of each page to navigate between grade levels.

Math Playground
Math Playground is an action packed site with lots of game like activities.  Use the link at the bottom of the page to get to even more game like activities.

Maths is Fun!
A site created in England (that is why it is Maths instead of Math) that has lots of activities sorted by math strands.  The author says, “The idea behind the site is to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible”.

Gamequarium Interactive Math Games
This is a large collection of Math Games sorted by math strand.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM)
This is a collection of tools and activities sorted by grade bands and math strands.  To see a listing of the activities, click in one of the rectangles with your mouse.

Math Manipulatives from the Math Playground
Similar to the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, this is a small but growing collection of manipulatives for teaching and learning.

Woodlands School Math Zone
This site has a collection of interactive activities sorted by math topic. Many of them are very game like and are popular with most students.

Mega Math 
Mathematics is lively and exciting; it is a field more akin to art and poetry than many people think.
Good mathematics ultimately comes from questions that bug you! We will have succeeded if you enjoy the activities and come away from them with some annoying unanswered questions. All of the activities involve hands-on exploration, and lots of opportunities for mathematical thinking, problem solving and communication. All of the topics are live, important areas of current mathematical research. When mathematicians consider these subjects, they do just what you will be doing---wrestling with interesting ideas, and having that special kind of fun that comes from tenacious and satisfying thinking.