Fun Ways to Connect Math with Valentine’s Day

Chocolate? Flowers? Lace? Corny jokes? Sharing feelings! Opening little packages of joy!

Looking for some fun ways to connect Valentine’s Day with math? Check out the links below ~ it is easy to find math projects that connect with Valentine’s Day.

Activities that Connect Math with Valentine’s Day

Fold a Paper Heart

Origami is the art of geometry. The more models your students fold, the more they develop an inherent understanding of area, angles, edges, lengths, and transformations.

Flower Florist Story Problems

Valentine’s Day is very busy for florists – jump to pages 15 and 16 in this pdf to write your own valentine story problems. Better yet, let your students write them, share them, and solve them.

Valentine Rebus Puzzles

Studying equivalent fractions? Substitutions? Equality? Rebus puzzles can help your students view fair trades from another perspective.

More

• Send home a recipe for a chocolate mug cake – measuring, volume
• Make paper heart chains to show the product of multiplication problems ~ planning, calculating
• Explore symmetry ~ starting with folding a heart in half ~ geometry, symmetry
• Valentine, you’re playing with my heart! OK not mine, slide dots on lines to animate a cartoon heart.
• Give kids colorful paper shapes and have them make as many hearts as they can in ~ oh, three or four hours ~ OK 10 minutes! Include tangrams, pattern blocks, and all the usual suspects. Then glue them to postcards and send to favorite valentines. Boosts geometry, academic vocabulary.
• Fold more origami hearts! ~ area, angles, geometry, transformations
• Create valentine themed bookmarks

Enjoy!