How To Create Math Worksheets Online, Fast and Free.
I found this shortcut to make Math worksheets in a few minutes. No, it’s not ChatGPT.
Your students love Math worksheets. But you’re so burdened with other teacher duties that you hardly find time to make worksheets for your students.
I’ve been in your place — having spent 8 years of my teaching life creating Math worksheets for classes 1, 2, and 3.
I found this amazing shortcut to make Math worksheets in a few minutes for my students.
Yes, they’re created online. But they aren’t copy-pasted from the internet. The Math worksheets you’ll make following my tips and strategies will be original and effective.
If you want to make your own Math worksheets online for your students, this is how you can do it for free and in no time.
Feel free to skip to:
Are worksheets really worth it?
Are worksheets beneficial in teaching Mathematics?
How to make Math worksheets effective?
Before you learn how to make a Math Worksheet online for free, answer this question aloud. 👇
Are worksheets really worth it?
Why am I asking this question?
Because it bothered me while researching for this article.
Teachers have a mixed review if worksheets are good or bad for students.
High School teacher and author of Experiential Learning Depot, Sara Segar, is strictly No-No for giving worksheets to students.
On the other hand, some educators have mixed opinions if worksheets should be used in the classroom.
I personally believe that worksheets are excellent teacher resources if made thoughtfully by keeping the students and learning outcome in mind. Worksheets must be used in moderation only to practice a concept, not to teach it.
Jane, a trained primary teacher from Australia, writes about good, bad, and ugly worksheets in her blog.
This raises the next question-
Are worksheets beneficial in learning Mathematics?
Worksheets are beneficial in learning Mathematics because they enhance student achievement, improve focus, and promote self-learning and practice.
Math requires drill and practice. Math worksheets are highly beneficial in practicing — not teaching — Addition, Subtraction, Division, and Multiplication. It is best to use Math worksheets for grades 1 to 5, as most of the fundamental mathematical concepts are taught in primary classes.
Now that you know the benefits of Math worksheets, read these tips on how to create the best Math worksheets.
How to make Math worksheets effective?
1. Create for students
Sounds obvious, right? But teachers get carried away making worksheets. Because every teacher wants to create the best worksheets, the purpose of creating them is lost.
For instance-
If you want to make a Class 1 Math worksheet on Addition, keep questions that first build the concept of “putting things together in addition” and then take the students to practice addition sums.
Move from easy to difficult questions so students don’t get demotivated by the wrong answers in the beginning.
And never give worksheets for homework, unless necessary. It’s important that you check the method of solving the addition problem instead of only the final answer.
In short-
Create worksheets keeping in mind the intellectual level and needs of students.
Some students like pictures.
Some like to go slow.
Some like to do it as a group activity.
Remember the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
Create your Math worksheets based on this theory, according to students’ different intelligence needs.
It improves their Math achievement, as per this study published in the Universal Journal of Educational Research.
2. Add value to learning experience
You mostly use worksheets to keep students busy.
Holidays? Assign worksheets.
Free period? Give worksheet.
Activity time? Worksheets will keep them busy.
Jennifer Gonzalez, the creator of Cult of Pedagogy, has differentiated ‘Busysheets’ from ‘Powersheets’.
▶ Busysheets are worksheets that are only meant to keep students occupied. Like sums, crossword puzzles, coloring, and pasting work.
They add no educational value.
▶ Powersheets, on the other hand, involve all senses of the students. These add immense educational value to their learning experience.
Like a data handling task, in which a student collects data, organizes it, analyzes it, and then finds a conclusion.
This takes us to the next point.
3. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
There was a reason Bloom gave that taxonomy: Taught in every teacher-training course.
Meaningful worksheets focus not only on ‘knowing’ and ‘understanding’ a concept but also on ‘applying’, ‘analyzing’, and sometimes ‘creating’ new knowledge.
For example
Consider Elementary Shapes.
If you want to create a Class 3 Maths worksheet on this topic, start with a question on the properties of shapes.
→ Which elementary shape has three sides?
Next, put questions on understanding and analyzing elementary shapes.
→ Colour the squares blue and rectangles green (from a given set of shapes).
Don’t stop here.
Add questions on creating and evaluating.
→ Draw a rectangle having all sides equal.
→ Why all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares?
Do these questions boggle your mind?
Then they’ll excite your students also.
4. Keep Math worksheets short, simple, and fun.
Make short worksheets. Students don’t enjoy long mindless writing work.
✔️ They should have fun solving Math problems.
✔️Ask straightforward questions in the worksheet.
✔️Use legible font.
✔️Give adequate space for notes and calculation work.
✔️Write clear questions and instructions.
Enough of theory. It’s time to bring these Math worksheet-making tips into practice.
How to create Math worksheet online?
And save time.
My Worksheet Maker is a free worksheet-making tool.
Here is a step-by-step tutorial to use it. At the end of this guide, you’ll be ready to make awesome worksheets for Math.
Disclaimer:
- If you think this tool will give you readymade worksheets, then oops, you’re at the wrong place. Although you can download premade Mathematics worksheets from My Worksheet Tool, but I don’t recommend that. It’s better to make your own questions.
- I don’t earn anything out of this article. It’s only to help you, teachers. No affiliate links here!
Let’s go.
Step 1: Go to My Worksheet Maker Tool
Visit the homepage by typing ‘My Worksheet Maker’ on Google or follow the website link here.
Step 2: Select the type of worksheet
Choose ‘Worksheets’. The other options come in the paid plan.
Step 3: Add Worksheet Title
Name your worksheet.
Then write the title and student information. Use any font of your choice.
See how I’ve done it.
Step 4: Write instructions for students.
Write all the instructions you want to give to your students, by clicking the ‘Instruction Box’ tab.
Here comes the magic of this tool.
You can easily add multiple types of instructions with a click.
Handwriting instructions, multiple-choice instructions, word-scramble or matching instructions — give any.
And also customize the border styles.
You’ll know ‘why’ in the next step.
Step 5: Add questions to worksheet.
Put all the questions you want to write.
Choose from a variety of questions- Multiple Choice, Open Response, Handwriting questions, long-form answers, and matching.
Look at the Open-response question I’ve added.
Notice the Handwriting lines.
You can even change the answer type and add either blank spaces or writing lines.
Select the number of lines and line height convenient for your students.
Now think about doing all this in Word.
How much time and effort it needs?
Step 6: Save and download worksheet
Now your worksheet is ready for print or download.
You can also share the link to the Mathematics worksheet with your students.
Some students don’t share their school activities with their parents.
I used to get a lot of complaints in the Parents-Teacher meeting.
“My child doesn’t tell me what he learned at school.”
Well, just share your class Maths worksheets with the parents through this link!
Check out this Maths worksheet made by me.
Over To You
Worksheets have been an integral part of the teaching-learning process. Mathematics concepts can be practiced and strengthened using worksheets.
However, they’re only beneficial for the students if they add educational value.
There’s a thin line between good effective worksheets and bad paper sheets full of copy-pasting, tedious questions whose sole purpose is to keep students busy. You’ll know the difference by just having a look at them. If they bore you, they won’t be fun for your students as well.
The best Maths worksheets are those that students look forward to — with questions involving critical thinking, analyzing, evaluating, and creating knowledge.
Next Steps-
Design a worksheet of Maths yourself
Now you’re fully trained and ready to make a worksheet.
Don’t let the time you’ve spent reading this article go to waste.
Follow the above steps to create a fun Math worksheet for your students.
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By Manika Pant
A Content Writer, EdTechxpert and Education enthusiast, Manika Pant is a trained teacher, having done B.Ed. and M.A. Education. She has 8+ years of school teaching experience. Creator of ‘Learning with M’, a Math educational YouTube channel, Manika is a content creator in the morning, a nature lover in the evening, and a poet by night.
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