🔢 Math About Me – Back to School Activity

Start the year with a fun and meaningful way to connect math to your students’ real lives!

This Math About Me activity allows students to share personal information through numbers while reinforcing number sense and mathematical thinking.

Students use important numbers from their lives such as:

🎂 Birthday

🏠 House Number

📮 Zip Code

👨‍👩‍👧 Number of Family Members

➕ Other Special Numbers

🧠 Why Teachers Love It

✔ Builds classroom community

✔ Integrates math with personal connections

✔ Perfect for back-to-school

✔ Great conversation starter

✔ Easy, low-prep activity

🎯 Ways to Use

• Back-to-school math lesson
• Bulletin board display
• Math journals
• Icebreaker activity
• Beginning-of-year assessment
• Open House display

This is a simple yet powerful way to show students that math is everywhere — especially in their own lives!