Teacher gift ideas for Christmas for YOUR kids, your kid’s classroom, and more! Below you’ll find my favorite math books, gifts for the classroom and math related gifts for your own kids!
Below you’ll find Gift ideas for…
- your child’s classroom
- Math books
- Prek to 2nd grade ideas
- 3rd to 5th grade kid ideas
- Middle school kid ideas
Math Teacher Gift Ideas for Christmas
1 Base Ten Block Magnets These are perfect for modeling addition and subtraction in primary grades.
2 Mavalus Tape The ONLY tape a teacher needs. This tape is WELL worth the money.
3 Perimeter, Area, & Volume Book Every teacher needs more books, so why not add a great math book that can be read aloud or independently!
4 Your Elastic Brain A read aloud to help students build growth mindset, a must have in the math classroom.
5 3D shapes with Folding Nets Teachers can use these with 1st graders when identifying shapes and the folding nets help with surface area for our middle schoolers!
6 Measurement Set This set can help students visualize liquid measuring.
7 10 Frame pop-its Pop-its are well loved by all and these are no different. Perfect for small groups for grades K to 2nd for addition and subtraction.
Math Books for Teachers and Families
1 Maryam’s Magic Biography of a brilliant, Iranian female mathematician. An inspiring story of a mathematician all children should know!
2 I Can Do Hard Things While setting a math classroom culture and math norms students will need to develop a mindset that hard things are a welcome challenge and they are capable. This book is a great place to start.
3 The Magical Yet The pictures and rhyme of this book make the message even more special. This book is a must read in every classroom community as you develop your culture of growth and perseverance.
4 I’m Trying to Love Math This picture book is perfect for all ages, even middle schoolers. The illustrations and humor make it a love-able and practical book for every classroom!
5 Thanks for the Feedback Is a favorite for introducing how to respond when students get feedback. Includes great thinking stems about both positive and negative feedback and ways to respond. Use with elementary and middle school students.
6 Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super Soaking Stream of Inventions What kids don’t love water guns & inventions? This biography of Lonnie Johnson is inspiring and exciting. A must have in every classroom! Check out more mathematicians your children should know here.
7 Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain A true story of an inspiring woman in the 17th century solving unbelievable math problems. Let’s change the narrative that math is for boys by surrounding our students with stories of all types of mathematicians from all the ages!
These are all teacher gift ideas for Christmas (or any holiday). Your child’s teacher would be so grateful to receive any gift, but especially a book!
Teacher Gift Ideas for PreK to 2nd Grade Kids!
1 Montessori Counting Pegs A great open ended math tool for helping children develop number sense and explore quantity. Perfect for at home family play or your child’s teacher!
2 Proportional Sized Number Blocks These blocks have so many possibilities from stacking to addition. What makes them unique? They are proportional– meaning the 10 is double the size of 5. Stack up the 2 and the 3 to equal the same height as the 5. This is a toy your kids will play with for years.
3 Number Blocks Stampoline Park If your child hasn’t watched this show you gotta go now! These brilliant, short (5 minute) episodes make learning quantity & math fun. This toy is a stamp set that is sure to be the highlight of art time, but also give some real fun math practice!
4 Magnetic 123 & ABC writing practice This magnetic board gives just enough resistance to help students practice with the “pencil” properly. While the number size has room to represent problems and draw models to match. Must have for traveling or preK and kindergarten fun at home practice.
5 Tiny Polka Dot has 16 easy to learn games inside that tiny box! Numbers up to 10 represented with ten frames, dot patterns, dice patterns… making subitizing (don’t worry if you don’t know that word) practice easy and fun!
6 Number Block Transformers are a BIG hit in our house. They are fun to play with and make numbers part of play without the pressure to “do math”.
7 Kids Learning Locks allow you to introduce numbers, written numbers, and quanitity while practicing fine motor skills. I can only imagine what kind of trouble kids can get into with their imagination and a set of pad locks!
Teacher Gift Ideas for your 3rd to 5th Grade Kids!
1 Fraction Measuring Spoons are perfect for your holiday baking and giving kids real life examples of fractions. Buy these for your kid, then use them as you cook & bake!
2 Montessori Multiplication & Division Board is perfect open ended game or learning toy to use with your child. No rules or “must dos”, instead just explore and notice patterns. Practice your facts and challenge your child to make arrays to match equations.
3 Fraction Measuring Cups a must have for real world math. Use these in the kitchen with your child as you bake and cook to help them visualize fractions. Also these make a great gift for your child’s classroom!
4 Multiplication Table Pop-It Everychild wants a giant pop-it, so why not get them one that’s useful too.
5 Adsumudi game A mental math game for all four operations. Easily modify this game to meet the needs of your child. This game is a perfect way to make practicing their math facts fun and build fluency with no tears!
6 Proof! Game Ages 9 to 99 will enjoy this game of mental math. The whole family can play and work on not only fact fluency, but providing mathematical reasoning as justification!
Teacher Gift Ideas for your Middle Schooler!
1 Prime Club is a game where you’ll master multiplication, division, factorization and prime number concepts… while having some family fun! Seems worth it to me.
2 Rubiks Cube the classic toy has made a come back, or maybe it never went anywhere. The middle schoolers at my school have backpacks full and take them everywhere they go. Your middle schooler wants one!
3 Shashibo is a foldable cube fidget. We all know kids love fidgets, but this is one you’ll find the adults playing with too. Configure it into tons of different shapes. Tons of colors and patterns to choose from.
4 Absolute Zero Card Game is a family card game where you combine positive and negative numbers to find the value of zero. Bonus, it was created by a math teacher!
5 Blokus is a family friendly game of strategy and spatial reasoning. Playing this game your child won’t even know they are using their brain, but will be having fun “blocking” out the other players.
If you have questions about the teacher gift ideas for Christmas for your children drop them below.
Or you can follow me on Instagram at @HelloMonaMath to see how I use these in my own home and classroom.
