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Join for free resources →3 Fun Halloween Math Activities for 5th Grade
by Ping · Updated October 10, 2023
Halloween is a great time to get your students excited about math. There are so many fun activities that you can do with your students to help them celebrate this spooky holiday. Here are three Halloween math activities that your fifth grade students will love!
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Join for free resources →1. Get Artistic with Doodle Math Worksheets
This is a great way to get your students’ creative juices flowing, as well as practicing their math skills with those math + art worksheets.
It’s a fresh twist on color-by-number or color-by-code, with more creative freedom on the resulting image. Simply print out a Doodle Math worksheet relevant to the topic that you’re covering in class. Your students will solve problems and unlock doodle patterns that they can doodle in the color of their choice
Here’s a few that are perfect for 5th grade:
Adding & Subtracting Decimals | Doodle Math Twist on Color by Number | Fall
$3.00
Multiplying Decimals | Doodle Math, Twist on Color by Number Worksheets
$3.00
Evaluating Numerical Expressions | Doodle Math Color by Number | Halloween
$1.99
You can find more in my Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving section.
2. Try Google Sheets Pixel Art
This activity is a fun way to help students practice independently while they create a spooky masterpiece.
You can copy a Google Sheet for each of your students and have them copy it. Students solve the problems and incrementally unlock a Halloween-themed picture. It’s great because it auto-grades, so students get instant feedback on what problems they’re getting right and wrong, so that they can improve.
I’ve made a few that you can use right away:
Metric Unit Conversions Pixel Art | Decimals | Google Sheets | Thanksgiving Math
$3.99
Evaluating Numerical Expressions Pixel Art | Order of Operations PEMDAS Digital
$3.99
Adding Fractions with Like & Unlike Denominators Pixel Art | Thanksgiving Math
$3.99
Multiplying & Dividing Fractions Pixel Art | Whole Numbers Fraction Google Sheet
$5.99
Dividing Fractions by Whole Numbers and Fractions Pixel Art | Google Sheets
$3.99
Volume by Counting Unit Cubes Pixel Art | 3D Solids, Prisms | Thanksgiving Math
$3.99
Dividing Unit Fractions and Whole Numbers Pixel Art Google Sheets 5th Grade
$3.99
Multiplying and Dividing Whole Numbers Pixel Art BUNDLE | Fall & Halloween
$5.99
There’s more in my Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving section.
3. Stop a Zombie Invasion
Looking for a fun way to practice graphing and coordinate planes with your students?
Try this exciting, print-and-go activity, students help the CDC stop an outbreak of a zombie virus by plotting outbreak locations, analyzing where to place a laboratory and hospital, and computing the distance between infected individuals.
Coordinate Plane Graphing & Distance | Plotting Points, Quadrants | 6th Grade
$3.99
Looking for an exciting application for plotting points coordinate planes, identifying quadrants, and calculating distance on graphs? How about a zombie apocalypse? In this print-and-go, EASEL-compatible activity, students must help the CDC stop an outbreak by plotting outbreak locations, analyzing where to place a laboratory and hospital, and computing the distance between infected individuals.
I hope you find at least one activity to make this Halloween spooktacular!
Hi, I'm Ping!
I spent 7 years in the classroom working to make math fun and relevant in middle school, by integrating math, art, and technology. I started Congruent Math to share this all with you.