1. Countdown Calendar: Create a Christmas countdown calendar where each day the students solve a math problem to reveal a part of a festive picture.
2. Christmas Tree Fractions: Design a Christmas tree using different shapes and ask students to calculate the fractions each shape makes up.
3. Snowball Fight: Divide students into teams and have them solve math problems. For each correct answer, they earn a paper snowball to throw at their opponents.
4. Advent Math Puzzles: Prepare an advent calendar with daily math riddles or puzzles for the students to solve.
5. Christmas Budgeting: Have students plan and budget for purchasing gifts for their family or friends, taking into account discounts, taxes, and shipping costs.
6. Santa’s Sleigh Packing: Students must use spatial reasoning skills to efficiently pack presents into Santa’s sleigh while considering weight limits and dimensions.
7. Reindeer Race: Organize a reindeer race where students solve math problems to advance their reindeer on the game board.
8. Festive Coordinate Graphing: Provide coordinate graph worksheets featuring holiday-themed images for students to plot on a grid.
9. Holiday Probability Games: Have students analyze and determine probability outcomes while playing classic holiday games, such as White Elephant or Secret Santa.
10. Fraction Snowflakes: Let students create decorative snowflakes using fractions, then simplify or find equivalent fractions for each design element.
11. Tallest Gingerbread House Competition: Using geometric shapes and calculations, have students design and build the tallest gingerbread houses possible.
12. Wrapping Paper Math: Assign various three-dimensional objects to be “wrapped”, then ask students to calculate surface area and amount of wrapping paper needed.
13. Elf Employment Statistics: Analyze elf employment data at the North Pole, focusing on graphs, percentages, and ratios.
14. Candy Cane Measurements: Use candy canes to study different measurements, including length, mass, and volume.
15. Christmas Light Patterns: Students create and evaluate patterns using holiday-themed lights or decorations.
16. Holiday Math Bingo: Play Bingo with math problems, and let students use festive markers, like mini candy canes or ornaments.
17. Christmas Cookie Geometry: Study various geometric properties and relationships by examining the shapes of differently decorated Christmas cookies.
18. Snowman Sequences: Explore arithmetic or geometric sequences through building snowmen with varying features and attributes.
19. Temperature Tracker: Have students track and compare holiday weather temperatures in different parts of the world using graphs and statistics.
20. Holiday Word Problems: Present students with real-life holiday scenarios that require mathematical problem-solving skills.
21. Gift Box Volume Challenge: Students determine the most efficient way to package presents by comparing various gift box sizes and calculating their volumes.
22. Christmas Sudoku: Provide Christmas-themed Sudoku puzzles for students to solve, incorporating holiday symbols or colors.
23. Caroling Combos: Students must calculate the number of unique combinations when selecting multiple holiday carols from a given list.
24. Wreath Ratios: Analyze ratios of various wreath materials, such as comparing ribbon length to pinecone quantity, to find proportional relationships.
25. Starry Night Combinations: Calculate different combinations of colored stars on a tree or pattern while exploring permutations and combinations in mathematics.
