Best Math Manipulatives for Kindergarten

These small cubes come in a variety of colors and can be connected in different ways. They are a great tool for making patterns, constructing shapes, and visually demonstrating addition and subtraction equations. 

There are a lot of great counting manipulatives on the market, and this set of 96 colorful bear-shaped counters is definitely one of the most useful. The bears fall into three sizes (“Daddies”, “Mommies”, and “Babies”) and come in six different colors. They are therefore really useful for teaching colors, size, sorting, and patterns. The corresponding Three Bear Pattern Cards are a great tool to use in combination with these bears! 

This adorable wooden caterpillar manipulative is great for teaching kids number recognition. Putting the pieces together in numerical order is a great activity for young kids! 

These wooden puzzles use colorful, visually appealing illustrations to demonstrate numbers from 1 to 20. A sturdy wooden storage box is also included. 

This classic tool for doing arithmetic includes 100 colorful wooden beads. It’s great for counting, adding and subtracting, and introducing place value. 

These colorful linking devices are another great option for teaching counting, patterns, colors, and sorting. They are sturdy and easy for toddler hands to work with. 

These adorable popsicle-shaped manipulatives teach counting and number recognition (and double as awesome toys!). 

These sturdy play-food cans each hold various plastic food items in the quantity specified on the can. Kids will have fun sorting the foods and putting the correct number of items in the appropriate can. 

This fun set includes 15 jumbo-sized popcorn pieces and five bowls of different sizes. Kids will love counting, sorting, and playing with the popcorn.  

A great tool for teaching number recognition, these realistic plastic cookies each have a different number of chocolate chips, with the bottom of the cookies showing the corresponding number. The set comes with a sturdy plastic cookie jar. 

This number board is a great tool for teaching a variety of concepts, including counting, skip counting, place value, and odds/evens. And young kids love filling up the board with tiles! 

This is a great toy for kids to use as they begin learning how to construct and understand written math equations and math symbols. 

This adorable penguin-themed activity set is awesome for introducing young kids to a range of math concepts such as counting, sorting, patterns, and base ten. 

This giant ten frame set is wonderful for introducing young kids to base ten skills.  

We love these realistic-looking animal counters. Each set comes with a variety of different animals and can be used for counting, sorting, and many other basic math exercises. There is also a jungle animal set, an ocean animal set, a fish set, and a dinosaur set. 

These pattern blocks are fantastic spatial learning and basic geometry. The blocks come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and the accompanying cards provide challenges ranging from very simple to increasingly complex. 

Attribute blocks are similar to pattern blocks, but they are made to help children learn four specific attributes: shape, size, color, and thickness. This 60-piece set includes pieces in five different shapes, three different colors, two sizes, and two thicknesses.  

This set of colored, see-through three-dimensional shapes is an indispensable resource to use in conjunction with any kindergarten math curriculum, or if you are teaching without a curriculum. A wooden set is also available. 

This is a great tool for teaching kids about shapes and basic geometry in a hands-on, three-dimensional way. Includes 170 pieces. 

These sturdy, colorful wooden blocks come in a variety of shapes and sizes that can be used for teaching shapes, sorting, and many other math skills. Like so many of the best math manipulatives, these blocks double as a fantastic toy for everyday use! 

This is a great first teaching clock for young kids. It is sturdy with a large face that clearly delineates hour, minute, and second marks. The included flashcards can also be used to help your child practice learning how to tell time. 

This is an excellent set for teaching time to kindergarten students, whether or not you are also using a curriculum. It includes a sturdy teaching clock and various activities for helping kids learn how to tell time. 

This set is wonderful for introducing money to young kids. It includes well-made play money in a variety of denominations, and kids will enjoy playing with and learning from the accompanying teaching materials. 

Kids will have hours of fun with this realistic cash register with a built-in calculator. It includes realistic bills and coins in a variety of denominations. 

This colorful flashcard set can be used to help kids learn and review basic math and time-telling skills. 

Although fractions typically aren’t formally introduced in kindergarten, these fun food-shaped fraction manipulatives are a great way to begin teaching the concept to young kids, who’ll also have fun just playing with them as toys. 

This set of magnetic pizza-themed manipulative is fantastic for introducing the concept of fractions to even the youngest kids. 

This colorful measuring cup set is fantastic for demonstrating the concept of fractions to kids. They come with a sturdy holder and correspond to standard recipe cup sizes, so you can use them to teach math while cooking with your kids! 

This set includes measuring cups, spoons, pitchers, and jugs to demonstrate fractions, volumes, and equivalencies in a visual, hands-on way.  

This is a simplified version of the popular Rush Hour game. Forty challenges will help kids build logic skills while having a blast! 

This is a great developmental logic game for young kids. Made of sturdy wooden pieces that are easy for small hands to work with, the game teaches spatial awareness, logic, and problem-solving through 48 included challenges. 

This is an excellent game for building spatial awareness, problem-solving skills, and basic logic. Kids will also love playing with the cute farm animals.

Kids will love figuring out how to help the three little piggies build their houses and protect themselves from the Big Bad Wolf, while building critical thinking and logic skills along the way! 

In this logic game, kids follow the 48 included challenges in order to find a path between the knight and the princess. Made of sturdy wood, this set will last for many years!  

Young kids will learn a variety of basic math skills as they collect different colored acorns in this fun and adorable game! 

In this classic board game, players race to pick the cherries from their trees before birds or dogs get to them. Kids will practice basic counting skills along the way. 

This is an excellent game for teaching addition and subtraction and practicing odds/evens. Kids will forget they are even doing math as they race to make it through the swamp first.

In this candy-themed game, kids practice number-matching and addition and subtraction skills. Includes one dice and 20 candy cards. 

In this ocean-themed game, players have to match different numeral cards together in order to make sums of 10. This is a nice compact size and can be played in short spurts for families on the go! 

If you are looking for an epic family game that allows kids to practice their math skills, we highly recommend this game! Kids practice addition, subtraction, and the concepts of half and double. Two difficulty levels are included.  

This is another fantastic option for teaching addition and subtraction skills. Kids also learn number comparisons and odds/evens in this fun space-themed game!