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Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to bring a little spooky fun into your math lessons! By weaving in pumpkins, candy corn, and other festive Halloween themes, teachers can turn learning into seasonal fun. Whether you’re teaching elementary, middle, or high school, try one of these Halloween math activities for lessons that are scarily good.

Halloween Math Activities for Elementary Students

Math practice doesn’t have to be boring, especially during Halloween. Explore these creative Halloween math games and activities that are sure to help sharpen your students’ number sense and problem-solving skills.

Candy Corn Math

Candy-themed activities are always a hit with students, so why not use them for a math lesson? These activities are perfect for math centers, small groups, morning work, or for a fun theme day during the fall. The best part is that your students won’t even know that they’re learning because they’ll be too busy having fun.

Candy Corn Activities Fall Math – Halloween Math Activities – Kindergarten Math
By Crystal MicGinnis
Grades: PreK-1st
Standards: CCSS K.CC.B.4, B.4b, C.6, C.7; K.MD.A.2; K.OA.A.1, A.3, A.5; K.G.B.5

Get your Kindergarteners or first graders excited about math this fall with these nine candy corn-themed activities and games! Perfect for October centers, small groups, or Halloween parties, this set makes learning math more festive.

Candy Corn Math – Halloween Math
By I’ll Take Seconds
Grades: PreK-1st

Give your students a fun way to practice essential math skills! Perfect for Kindergarten and first grade, this set of candy corn-themed activities makes learning hands-on. Some activities use real candy corn (or the included paper cutouts), while others require no candy at all — so you can choose what works best for your classroom.

Candy Corn Halloween Math Craft for Counting, Addition, or Making Ten
By A Sunny Day In First Grade
Grades: K-2nd

This hands-on activity helps students practice counting, addition, and making ten using ten frames. With three craft options included, it’s ideal for skill review, end-of-week fun, or even a sub day. The easy-to-follow instructions and templates make prep a breeze!

MULTIPLICATION Candy Corn Craft: Halloween Fall Math Coloring Worksheet Alternate
By HoJo’s Teaching Adventures
Grades: 3rd-5th
Standards: CCSS 3.OA.C.7

These candy corn multiplication math puzzles make it quick and easy for teachers to provide hands-on math games that meet the needs of all students. Use them anytime you need a fun math activity in fall.

Haunted House Project-Based Learning 

Upper elementary students can dive into more complex math concepts by designing their own haunted house. These activities combine critical thinking and problem-solving through project-based learning.

Design a Haunted House | Halloween Math 3rd Grade | Halloween Math Project
By I Want to be a Super Teacher
Grades: 2nd-3rd
Standards: CCSS MP1, MP4, MP5, MP6

Bring Halloween fun to your classroom with this differentiated haunted mansion math project that blends reading, math, and problem-solving! Students get to design their own spooky mansion using measurement, perimeter, and area. It includes editable templates for the intro letter, room details, and mansion map, so you can customize it for your class.

Design a Haunted House Halloween Project Based Learning Math Activity
By Kitten Approved Curriculum
Grades: 4th-6th
Standards: CCSS 4.NBT.A.1, A.3, B.4, B.5, B.6; 5.NBT.A.4, B.5, B.7; 4.NF.A.2, B.3a, B.3d

A fun, flexible way to practice real-world math skills this October! With multiple levels of challenge, this project engages students in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and estimation using whole numbers and decimals.

Design a Haunted House Writing Halloween PBL Math and Writing Project
By Shelly Rees
Grades: 4th-6th
Standards: CCSS 4.NBT.B.4, B.7, W.4.1, W.4.4, W.4.7, W.5.1, W.5.4, W.5.7, SL.4.1, SL.4.4, SL.5.1, SL.5.4, SL.6.1, SL.6.4

This Halloween project blends real-life math, reading, and writing skills as students plan and design their own haunted house — and then, persuade others to visit their spooky attraction! It’s the perfect mix of creativity and academics for a high-engagement October activity.

Design a Haunted House | Digital Project Based Learning | Architecture | Math
By GATER Educator – Kris Prince
Grades: 5th-8th
Standards: CCSS W.5.1, W.6.1, W.7.1, W.8.1; WHST.6-8.7, 6-8.9

Make Halloween week unforgettable with this high-engagement, cross-curricular activity! This monster mansion project-based learning unit is packed with spooky fun, critical thinking, and real-world connections that get students thinking like architects, designers, and storytellers — all while covering key reading, math, writing, and STEM skills. 

Halloween Math Activities for Middle & High School Students

Even in middle and high school, a touch of seasonal fun can go a long way in keeping students engaged. These themed Halloween math games and activities not only build mathematical fluency but also encourage collaboration and critical thinking in ways that feel fresh and relevant.

Halloween Coordinate Graphing

With coordinate graph activities, students are given a set of ordered pairs to plot on a coordinate plane, and once completed correctly, a mystery Halloween image will emerge! This type of activity reinforces students’ understanding of the coordinate plane and helps them improve their plotting accuracy.

Halloween Activities | Coordinate Graphing Mystery Pictures | Halloween Math
By Kristine Nannini
Grades: 4th-9th

Coordinate plane graphing mystery pictures are the perfect way for students to practice those tedious ordered pair graphing skills without boredom creeping in. This is a ready-to-go activity just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or Halloween bulletin boards. Students will be so engaged as they build their mystery picture that they won’t even realize how hard they’re working on their math skills!

Halloween Math Spiderweb Coordinate Graphing Picture
By Hayley Cain – Activity After Math
Grades: 5th-9th
Standards: CCSS 5.G.A.1; 6.NS.C.8

With this coordinate graphing activity, students plot points to reveal a spider and web design. A perfect blend of math and creativity, this activity is great for fall or Halloween and lets students bring their designs to life!

Halloween Four Quadrant Coordinate Plane Graphing Pictures | Fun Math Activity
By Skylight Resources
Grades: 6th-8th
Standards: CCSS 6.NS.C.6, 6c

A fun and easy way to build graphing confidence this Halloween! Students graph ordered pairs to reveal a hidden Halloween image to color — all while practicing their skills with coordinate plane graphing.

Plotting Points in the Coordinate Plane Halloween Group or Partner Activity
By Math in Demand
Grades: 6th-8th

A spooky Halloween partner or group activity that’s both fun and flexible! Students plot points to reveal sections of a spiderweb — and when all four graphs are combined, the web grows large and impressive. You can have students work in pairs (two graphs each) or groups of four (one graph each) to fit your classroom’s needs. Plus, these spiderwebs make an amazing bulletin board display for October!

Halloween Math Mysteries

Middle and high school students love solving mysteries, and the Halloween season is the perfect time to combine math with a bit of intrigue. In these activities, students must use their math skills to crack clues for a Halloween-themed mystery.

Halloween Math Activity for Middle School Mystery for 6th 7th 8th Grade Algebra
By Lauren Fulton
Grades: 6th-9th

Perfect for middle schoolers, this challenge turns math practice into a thrilling game of mystery and teamwork. During this Halloween math game, students become suspects at a Halloween party and must work together to solve problems involving one-step equations, operations with decimals, multi-step word problems, order of operations, area, and proportions to uncover the murderer before it’s too late!

8th Halloween Activity : Halloween Math Mystery – Tricking Treat
By Mrs J’s Resource Creations
Grades: 7th-9th
Standards: CCSS 8.NS.A.1; 8.EE.A.1, A.2

Engage your students with this spooky math mystery, where they must use their skills to eliminate suspects so they can find out who has been giving out the tricking treat to children. It’s super easy to prep: Just print and solve, or go paperless with the included Google Slides option.

Halloween Math Games & Logic Puzzles

These spooktacular math games and logic puzzles are a great way to engage students. Whether you’re looking for independent practice, warm-up activities, or enrichment for advanced students, puzzles like these are ideal for classroom use or homework assignments.

Algebra Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles for Fall Halloween Thanksgiving
By Teaching High School Math
Grades: 6th-9th

Boost your students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills with these 15 engaging algebraic logic puzzles! 

Solving Equations Halloween Theme Google Slides Digital Game End of Unit Review
By Algebra Made Simple
Grades: 8th-9th
Standards: CCSS 7.EE.A.1; 8.EE.C.7, C.7b; HSA-REI.B.3

Engage your students with this Halloween-themed Google Slides game focused on solving equations! This no-prep, self-checking game covers one-step, combining like terms, distributive property, two-step, and multi-step equations with variables on both sides.

Pumpkin Math

Halloween is often synonymous with trips to the pumpkin patch and carving jack o’ lanterns. Try one of these creative pumpkin activities to introduce or review math concepts for middle and high school students.

Halloween Pumpkin Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Math Pennant Activities
By Scaffolded Math and Science
Grades: 8th-9th

In this festive pumpkin-shaped activity, students simplify expressions with the distributive property and combining like terms. It includes 34 pennants (30 with algebraic expressions, four blank for your own), plus an optional student answer sheet and answer key. Perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any fall math celebration!

HALLOWEEN Algebra 1 Graphing Linear Equations Pumpkin Garland Math Activity
By Algebra Accents
Grades: 7th-10th

Practice graphing linear equations with this festive 3-D autumn pumpkin activity! Students practice linear equations in slope-intercept, standard, or point-slope forms to create colorful pumpkins. With 60 equations (20 per form), you can easily differentiate or spread this activity over multiple days. Once complete, hang the pumpkins on a string to decorate your classroom and showcase your students’ work!

Get your students screaming for learning this Halloween

Incorporating Halloween themes into your lessons — whether it’s through Halloween escape rooms or Halloween reading activities — allows you to captivate students’ imaginations while sharpening their skills. If you want even more ideas for your math class, explore TPT for more math resources for Halloween.