Winter Math Activities for Middle & High School
Seasonal math activities involving snowmen, snowflakes, penguins, hot chocolate, and all things winter can boost student engagement. I’ve collected some of my favorite math activities that have a winter twist. These are perfect for engaging practice, early finishers, sub plans, or right before winter break. I hope these will be fun for your middle and high school math students.
Wintery Personality Test
Students LOVE this graphing activity! First they take a personality test, deciding if they agree or disagree with statements about winter activities. Then they graph ordered pairs using different colors depending on their answers. They each create a snowflake unique to them!
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Snowflake Symmetry
Students gets to physically test out symmetry with snowflakes! They’ll fold and trace snowflakes to see if each one has reflection symmetry and rotational symmetry. Then they can try to make their own!
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Proportional Relationships
Four winter-themed tasks give students a winter scenario. They must complete the story, graph, table, and equation. The multiple representations really push them to think!
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Winter Linear Graphs
With these four tasks, students fill in multiple representations for linear relationships. Each one is winter-themed! They complete the story, graph, table, and equation.
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Exponential Functions
These exponential relationships tasks really push students to think about exponential growth and decay. The real world scenarios are engaging and great discussion starters!
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Snowflake Angles
Here’s a practice activity for angles with a winter twist! Students find missing angle measures using vertical angle relationships and supplementary angle relationships. Some of the sheets also involve equations for an extra challenge!
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Converting Fractions to Decimals
Converting rational numbers to decimals using long division just got a little more exciting! As students convert each fraction into a decimal, they get a feature to add to their snowman. This activity is low prep and easy to check!
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Simplifying Expressions
With this snowman activity, students will need to combine like terms and distribute to simplify expressions. Each equivalent expression gives them something to add to their snowman!
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Mystery Graph with Integers
This coordinate graphing picture lets students practice two skills: graphing ordered pairs and integer addition & subtraction! Students must add and subtract integers to get their points. They graph them to create a snowman.
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One & Two Step Equations
Practice one-step or two-step equations! You can choose the version best for your class. As students solve, they find out interesting facts about penguins.
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Winter Emoji Transformations
Challenge students to translate, reflect, rotate, and dilate figures to create these winter emojis! This is a geometry practice activity that students love, but it’s a challenge too!
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Order of Operations
Practice order of operations with this winter math activity. Each answer reveals an interesting fact about cold weather!
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Winter Logic Puzzles
Logic puzzles are a great way to get students thinking algebraically. These puzzles increase in difficulty and can lead to some great discussions about students’ thinking.
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Create your own digital activity!
Want to create a self-checking digital activity for your students to practice any skill? With this snowball fight template, simply enter your problems and answer choices. Then assign to your students for a fun, winter-themed practice!
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