For kindergarten Smart Board activities, consider activities that use money. Have a "Money Box" or a "Money Bag" on screen with coins beside it. When students add a particular coin into the box or bag, the Smart Board keeps a tally of the value of the money in the box. Create a simple graph keeping track of the kind of shoes students wear each day or the lunch people eat. Have the results tallied by the students or the Smart Board. The Smart Board can take the place of physical manipulatives. Create an activity that allows students to move groups of Popsicle sticks or other bundles in groups of tens and ones to create a particular number, such as 43 or 67.
Use Smart Board programs to allow the students to create "number stories" as discussed in Everyday Math. For example, a gardener plants flowers, and the students record how many she plants one day, then add the number she plants the next day. A student has a frog and a group of flies on the screen. He notes the number of flies at first, then clicks to have the frog eat some flies. The student then writes a number story to reflect what happened.
Use the Smart Board to list items in the classroom that have to do with math, as suggested in Everyday Math lesson one. Have pictures of grocery or discount store items on a Smart Board with prices beside each one. Set a budget, and have the students select the most items they can buy for under their budgeted amount. The Smart Board program tells them on the next page if they were successful or if they went over budget.
Use the Smart Board to review multiplication vocabulary like factor, product, square number and turnaround, switch and switcharoo. Have questions on the Smart Board that students can answer on a paper or answer aloud. Use the Smart Board to review the multiplication songs, posting the lyrics and singing along. Smart Boards are also excellent for quick, mental math exercises. Put quick questions on the board, such as "How many seconds in a minute?" Smart Boards are also good for diagramming fractions and writing fraction number stories. Use groups of items that the students can divide into 3/4 or 1/2.