Valentine’s Day isn’t just for cards and candy, it’s also a great time to sneak in some fun math activities! Yep, that’s right, big kids love getting in the holiday spirit too! Valentine’s Day is a great time to create a sweet math experience for your upper elementary students.

In this blog post, I am sharing five fun and engaging Valentine’s Day math activities that will make your upper elementary students (and you!) fall in LOVE with math!

Valentine’s Math Games

Valentine's Day math games for 4th grade fractions and multiplication on pink paper background

Valentine’s Day-themed math games will surely bring the fun of the holiday into your math lessons! These valentine’s math games provide an engaging way for students to practice important math skills and embrace the holiday spirit.

These printable math games can be used for math centers, partner games, early finishers, morning work, or math small group activities.

The best part is that these games are easy to plan, prep and use! Just print the games you want to use, grab some basic game supplies like dice and game pieces and you will be ready to go!

Want to grab some ready-to-use Valentine’s Day math games? Click the links below!

4th Grade Valentine’s Day Math Games

5th Grade Valentine’s Day Math Games

Logic and Brain Teasers

Valentine's Day math logic puzzles and brain teasers on a pink background with scattered pink hearts

How would you like to build your students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and logic skills while also celebrating Valentine’s Day?

Try incorporating Valentine’s Day-themed logic and brain teasers into your lessons!

These Valentine’s Day math puzzles are a great tool for building engagement and getting kids excited about solving math challenges. Kids love to solve puzzles and logic puzzles and brain teasers provide a nice break from the usual daily routine.

Your students will be having so much fun solving the puzzles that they won’t even realize they are using algebra skills like variables, solving equations, balancing equations, substitution, and critical thinking.

Valentine’s Day Math Puzzles

Valentine's Day math picture equation puzzle shown on an iPad on top of a red and pink heart background

Help your students build pre-algebra skills in a fun way with math equation picture puzzles. These colorful math puzzles use pictures to create equations. Each picture in the equation represents a different value. Students need to figure out the value of each image so that all of the equations in the math puzzle are true.

Try these Valentine’s Day-themed math equation puzzles to challenge your students during the month of February!

Use these digital puzzles as a math warm up activity, as part of your morning meeting, or as an enrichment activity.

Valentine Math Worksheets

Valentine's Day math worksheets about conversation hearts on red paper background with felt hearts on the side

Let’s be honest, a plain old worksheet can be pretty boring. Your students might not get excited about a regular worksheet about collecting data, but when you add a Valentine’s Day twist to the practice you will really build student interest and engagement.

Use Valentine’s Day-themed math worksheets for extra practice or to review skills taught earlier in the year.

Some fun kinds of Valentine’s Day practice pages include color-by-number practice, candy heart data, graphing candy hearts, mystery pictures, and word problems about sweet treats like candy and cookies. Your students will love these sweet activities!

Math with Valentine’s Cards

Valentine's Day cards with images of balloons, a cat, a dinosaur holding a heart and a hamburger with heart eyes

Do your students do a Valentine’s Day card exchange? Did you know you can also do math with those Valentine’s Day cards?

Add a touch of the holiday spirit to your data collection and data analysis lessons by using Valentine’s cards!

Have your students gather data about the Valentines they receive based on different categories. You might have your students sort their cards using prompts like:

How many of your cards have animals on them?
How many of your cards have a riddle or joke on them?
How many of your cards have the word love on them?
How many of your cards have a food item on them?

You can even have students come up with their own categories.

Once they’ve sorted their cards and recorded their data they can calculate the fraction or percentage for each category.

This hands-on activity not only helps students practice important math skills but also allows them to explore data collection and analysis in a fun and engaging way.

Incorporating Valentine’s Day into your math lessons is a fun and easy way to keep your students engaged and motivated during the month of February. Whether you’re using brain teasers, logic puzzles, picture math equations, or Valentine’s Day math games, there are many ways to celebrate the holiday while also strengthening important math skills.

If you’re looking to add some love to your Valentine’s Day math activities, check out the Valentine’s Day math resources available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store! You’ll find a variety of resources designed to help you celebrate the holiday while strengthening important upper elementary math skills.

Read about more Valentine’s Day math activities HERE.