Valentine's Day in the Math Classroom

Maybe it is my love for math that makes me think a Valentine theme and math make a perfect combination! I have gathered some of my favorite math activities and decorations for February and Valentine’s Day.

The Heart of a Mathematician Bulletin Board

This bulletin board shows everything mathematicians love! The heart is easy to create using the kit. Just print the pieces, cut, and attach to a bulletin board in your classroom.

Personality Test Activity

This graphing activity is a personality test! Students answer questions and graph points to see if they have the “heart of a mathematician!”

Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Heart Puzzle

This Valentine math activity is a fun way to practice combining like terms and distributing. Students match equivalent expressions to solve the heart puzzle!

Adding & Subtracting Integers Mystery Graph

Practice working with integers with this fun Valentine's Day math activity. Students add and subtract positive and negative numbers. Each solution creates an ordered pair that students graph on the coordinate plane to reveal an image of a heart emoji.

Valentine Math Booklet

These little booklets are full of middle school math with a Valentine’s Day theme. They include logic puzzles, percent questions, a ratio activity, two-step equations, and an integer operation maze.

Reasons to Love Math Bulletin Board

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and a love for math with this door decoration or bulletin board kit. Included are 24 hearts with ways math helps us in everyday life.

Valentine Equation Challenge

Practice solving challenging, multi-step equations with this Valentine activity. Each equation reveals a fun fact about Valentine's Day. Equations are difficult and include exponents, roots, brackets, and several steps.

Math Can Transform Your Heart Door

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and a love for math with this easy to create classroom decoration. It features geometric transformations of hearts on coordinate planes.

Math Can Transform Your Heart Bulletin Board

This Valentine design works great as a bulletin board too!

Low Prep Math Stations

Students visit 8 stations and solve a math problem. On their answer recording sheets, they show their work and write things they love, corresponding to the solution. Five versions of math problems are included: expressions as written words, integer operations, percent of a number, two-step equations, and evaluating functions for a given value.

GCF & LCM Heart Puzzle

Practice finding greatest common factors and least common multiples with this engaging activity. Students solve the heart puzzle by matching numbers with their LCM or GCF!

Valentine Heart Number Line

These hearts feature positive and negative integers -10 to 10. This is a great tool to use for math activities (like comparing numbers, estimating values of square roots, and operating with integers).

Valentine Computer Wallpaper

Update your desktop background with these fun Valentine math images!

I hope you found these ideas inspiring for your math classroom this Valentine’s Day.