Clap Your Hands Everybody!
Math - Kindergarten
Count & Clap: A Musical Math Adventure!
Clap Your Hands Everybody!
Goal
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
This lesson uses clapping to reinforce addition in a hands-on, interactive, and fun way. By incorporating a variety of sounds—such as loud, slow, or fast claps—students engage with math through rhythm and movements.
Activity Prep
Download & print the PDF below
Writing tools (pencils, colored pencils, markers, etc.)
How to Use
Read the questions aloud with the teacher and write the answers in the boxes.
Teachers
Please sit with your students and read the questions aloud together.
Please encourage them to say the numbers and answers aloud as they write them in the boxes.
Common Core
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT. K.OA.A.1 (Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.)
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