With so many games to choose form, it can be hard to find the one you want. I've tried to sort them into various lists - you can access some of these from the menus at the right - but there'll always be one or two that slip through the cracks. That's why I've made this 'sitemap' page, listing every single game on the site! Scroll down, explore and enjoy!
The Adding Fractions Worksheets Page has links to dozens and dozens of practice questions for fraction addition. Each worksheet prints onto a single page Good for grades 5 to 7
Kindy Bingo has some printable 3x3 bingo cards, suitable for kids who know the numbers 1 through 10. Each set of three numbers appears at most once in the set of cards. If you don't want to have a winner after only three numbers are called out, the web page explains which three numbers can be your first three. Good for grades kindy and 1
An Advent Calendar, besides being a great Christmas tradition, helps teach younger kids counting and calendars in a fun, exciting way. Download and print this free advent calendar, make up up with a trimmer and glue, and enjoy the Christmas countdown with your child. Good for grades kindy to 3
These Simplifying Fractions Worksheets have hundreds of simplifying fractions questions to try. There are a variety of levels of difficulty to choose from. This should be all the worksheets you'll ever need! Good for grades 4 to 6
Like the other fractions worksheets pages on this site, the Subtraction Fractions Worksheets page has links to all the fraction subtraction worksheets you'll need. Bookmark it and come back when you need more. Good for grades 5 to 7
Use this Printable Sudoku Generator to create as many printable sudoku puzzles as you like, or download the ones I've already generated for you. You can choose the difficulty level, the number of puzzles to print, and whether or not to print the solutions. Good for grades 4 to 12
Print these Magic Number Cards, learn how to use them, and with a bit of practice you'll be able to amaze your friends with your number guessing skills! This page provides the traditional version of this trick, as well as a few variations of my own invention. Full instructions and a video example are available at the web page. Good for grades 3 to 5
Sometimes a bit of practice helps. The worksheets on this page give a child practice both counting and recognizing printed numbers. The kid is supposed to read a printed number, then draw the correct number of objects in the space provided. Good for grades kindy
The Traffic Jam Game is one of my favorite amongst the elementary math games on this site. It's a great puzzle for teaching logical thinking and boosting problem-solving ability. Yet, the rules are simple enough that a four-year old can understand them. First, second and third grade kids will enjoy the simpler puzzles. Fourth, fifth and sixth graders will enjoy the challenge of the harder ones. Try the printable version or the online version. Good for grades 1 to 12
This free "fours" contest closed on the 20th of October, 2009. The idea was to make as many numbers as possible using the digit '4' (as many times as you like) and the operations plus, minus, divide and times. Soon I'll upload the contest results, and ideas for how you can run a contest like this one in your own classroom. Good for grades 4 to 7
In the Magical Calculator Birthday Trick and the "Threes" Math Trick, one child gives a sequence of arithmetic instructions to another, then performs a few simple mental steps on the result. Almost like magic, the other's birthday (or another secret number) appears as the result of the sum! Good for fourth grade kids and up. Good for grades 5 to 12
Times Tables Memory is a memory game that will help transfer times table facts from short-term to long-term memory. It can be played solo, or with a friend. Good for grades 3
Another worksheet for practicing counting and reading numbers. This time, the child must match the printed number against the box with the correct number of circles. Try it! Good for grades kindy
There is a famous story about the inventor of chess, who was offered a reward by the emperor of India. He chose a reward that seemed to the emperor very cheap - just a few sacks of rice - but in reality came to more rice than India could produce in a million years. This site has worksheets to help kids work through a Modern Rice-And-Chessboard Story and see for themselves how rich the reward was. Good for grades 6 to 12
Looking for a Times Table Board Game? Print out the playing board and the question cards, and start rolling the dice! Good for small or medium groups of kids, from grades 2 to 4. Good for grades 3
Math is not just about number. On this page I've provided a printable version of a toy my mom gave me as a child. It's a collection of tiles of different shapes, sizes and colors. The page also gives suggestions for how you might use them to benefit your kid or kids. You'll need a color printer. Good for grades kindy
Print out as many foldable number sheets as you want, and use them to explain our "number system" - why the 8's in eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight all mean different things, even though they look exactly the same! There are three sizes of printable sheets, and also a movie showing one time I used them with my son to explain a point that was troubling him. Good for grades 1
Do you have a group of kindy kids struggling to remember addition sums up to 10? Try this math board game on them. You'll need to do some printing and cutting first, and find a die (dice) and some playing pieces. Good for grades kindy to 2This is the Online Traffic Jam Game. Traffic Jam Game is the famous game where you have to move the red car out of the traffic jammed parking lot. This free online version has hundreds of puzzles, as well as links to PC, Mac and Android versions you can buy. Good for grades kindy to 12
In This Challenging Math Puzzle you have to place the numbers one through eight in a grid, such that no two neighboring squares have consecutive numbers. It's possible to solve, but it can be quite tough. I've seen 4th graders baffle away for weeks at this puzzle, but its 5th grade and 6th grade kids who seem to have a more realistic chance to solve it. Enjoy! Good for grades 4 to 12
Math Lines is like 'Zuma' with a math twist. A twisty row of colorful numbered marbles winds its way across the screen. If they get too far, that's the end of the game. Blast away with marbles of your own, and if you join two marbles that add to 10, they'll explode and give you more time to win. Can you make it to the next level? Good for grades 2 and 3
These Sight Number exercises, inspired by "Salisbury Sight Words", are designed to help your kids memorise their addition, subtraction and multiplication tables in the optimal way. Good for grades 1 to 3
To win this big numbers contest, your kids just need to think of the biggest number they possibly can - bigger than anyone else's! This contest closed on October 20, 2008, but the page shows you how you can organize a min-contest within a class or a school. Good for grades 6 to 12
Does someone need Practice Multiplying Or Dividing By Ten, Hundred or a Thousand? This worksheet generator lets you create as many practice questions as you like for manipulating powers of 10. Create easy or difficult worksheets, long or short ones, or even create individual worksheets for each member of your classroom to prevent copying... Good for grades 3 and 4
This is one of two math tricks on this site that let you guess someone's birthday after a sequence of mathematical operations. Good for grades 5 to 12
Math Frozen Bubble is an online interactive bubble buster game that also helps kids practice their arithmetic. Good for grade 4 and up. Good for grades 5 to 12
This Addition Trick seemed like magic when my uncle first showed it to me. I was 11 years old, I think. Here I explain the trick so you can amaze the 11-year-olds in your life. Good for grades 5 and 6
The Upside-Down Calculator Word Game is recommended for kids in fifth grade and fourth grade, and maybe also third grade. Younger children may find it too challenging - although my son's grade one teacher recently gave an exercise like this one to her class! The aim is to find numbers that make words when keyed into an upside-down calculator. See the game's page for more details. Good for grades 4
These Math Mazes are good for puzzle-loving kids as they learn their 7 and 8 times tables. They may look like ordinary mazes, but knowing your times table will help you reach your goal! Good for grades 3
Try the Fractions Card Game if you have children who need to practice adding and subtracting fractions. There's a set of playing cards to print and cut out, and suggestions for at least three games you can play with them. In one, the aim is to find groups of cards that add up to one, so kids will pick up skills in addition and subtraction of fractions, as well as reducing fractions, as they pit their wits against one another. Good for grades 4 to 6
This page has a link to a file you can print onto cardboard and cut out, to make a great toy for learning number and arithmetic. It's a set of blocks - or at least, the closest I could get to a set of blocks printed on cardboard. The page also suggests a number of games you can teach a child to help them get the most out of the game. You'll need a color printer. Good for grades kindy
Flashcard Stepping Stones is a simple game, quick to set up, and helps make flashcards more enjoyable. Be as theatrical as possible, and create an imaginary playful world for your child, as he or she recalls the math facts they need to rescue the princess, or destroy the evil robot, or arrive at adventureland! Good for grades 1 to 3
The Easter Date Worksheets allow a child to compute the date of Easter Sunday in any year at all, with no math more complex than long division. Alternatively, try younger kids on the simpler versions of the worksheets - fewer calculations, smaller numbers, but they only work in certain centuries. Good for grades 4 to 12
If you're good at (or need practice at) dividing fractions, try this Dividing Fractions Quiz Good for grades 5 to 7
In Math Pathways you do a sequence of arithmetic sums, over and over on different numbers, and this shows you the way across a grid of numbered balls. In the hardest level, you aren't even told what sums you need to do, but have to figure this out from the numbers in the grid! Good for grades 3
Wishing that there were educational arcade games? Well, Mathteroids, the math asteroid game is the next best thing! This is an action-packed asteroid shooter game where you must sharpen your math skills to know which asteroids to shoot! Good for grades four and up. Good for grades 5 to 7
Get your kids using this Spirograph Applet, and watch them make beautiful patterns. While they are enjoying the artwork, you can read here about the math they are learning! Good for grades 1 to 12
These timetable worksheets will give your child practice reading timetables, schedules, itineraries and the like. Good for grades 2 and 3
MathGolf is a simple game to play, and a very hard game to master. The high scores for each month are recorded on the website. The tips for parents and teachers explains how to help your kids get the most out of the game. Good for grades 3 to 6
This website has a host of times table charts and grids that you can download and print - even up to the 20 times tables! Good for grades 3
Squink is a Brain Puzzle where players have to find the squares in a pattern on a grid, and count how many squares surround each location. There are two ways to play - you can count the squares in the pattern shown, or you can find a pattern to produce the counts shown. You can also design patterns of squares and share them with your friends! Good for grades 5 to 12
Looking for Fraction Multiplication Worksheets? This page has hundreds of fraction multiplication practice questions sorted into worksheets fo 10 questions each. More than enough practice questions for almost any math student to learn fractio multiplication. Good for grades 5 to 7
Mastermind is a classic game of logical deduction. The first player selects a secret code. The second player tries to guess that code. After each guess, the first player gives clues about how well the second player did - how many digits (or pegs or marbles) in the code are correct, and how many are the right color but the wrong place. In this online version of mastermind, you can pit your wits against the task of finding the computer's secret code, or select your own secret code, and challenge the computer to guess it. Good for grades 4 to 12
One of my former math lecturers made a set of Sudoku Puzzles for Kids. Each printable puzzle has clues, showing which squares are the easiest to fill in first. It provides a good guide for helping kids get started solving sudoku puzzles. Good for grades 2
Get Interval Of Time Worksheets here - as many as you need, all different if you like. This worksheet generator allows you to create randomized worksheets, but still bookmark a particular worksheet (and its solutions) so that you can come back to it later. The worksheets cover adding or subtracting an amount of time to a particular time of day, or finding the time interval between two times of day. Good for grades 2 to 5
Fizz Buzz is a well-known game. It gives practice identifying multiples of 5 and 7. It's a great math game for kids, and a hilarious ice-breaker for adults too! At the web page you'll find a "fizz-buzziness calculator" that will determine what a player should say for any given number. Good for grades 4 to 12
Try Fish Plus One for kids who need to practice their basic addition skills. This game can be played with a normal pack of cards, once the picture cards have been removed. Once your kids get good at Fish Plus One, move them on to Fish Plus Two, Fish Plus Three, and finally Fish Plus Plus! Good for grades kindy and 1In one famous puzzle, you must make as many numbers as you can using only the given four digits and the basic arithmetic operations. I've worked out which sets of four digits make this puzzle the most interesting, and provided worksheets on this page. Good for grades four and up. Good for grades 5 to 12
Not exactly a game, but certainly a useful tool for teaching kids addition and subtraction facts - either actively through memory exercises, or passively through osmosis! These addition and subtraction tables and charts are free, and ready for you to print and use. Good for grades kindy and 1
Try the Magic Square Puzzle Worksheets on this site. Almost 40 magic square puzzles to try, as well as ideas for how to use it in a classroom. Good for grade 3 and up. Good for grades 4 to 6
Get your kids to try out these Sliding Blocks Puzzles just for the challenge of solving them, or get them thinking about the deeper questions of what makes a sliding block puzzle solvable. Good for grades 3 to 7
If your kids like more action, and they are at the same level with their times tables, try Times Tables Snap! Good for grades 3
The Arithmetic Math Game is a game where players roll special dice and do arithmetic based on the results, hoping to reach a specific number goal. It is most suitable for grades four or five, but you can modify the rules to make it easier or harder. Good for grades 5 and 6
Follow this link to get the Fraction Division Worksheets provided on this website. Like the other fractions worksheets on this site, the fraction division worksheets are grouped into five different difficulty levels, with 10 worksheets in each level. Each worksheet has 10 questions. This is more than enough practice to make anyone a fraction division expert. Good for grades 5 to 7
Color Switcher is a single-player puzzle game. A collection of colored beads is arranged on the board. Jump over a bead and it changes color. Can you switch the color of every bead on the board? This game, playable online, comes with hundreds of pre-set puzzles for you to match your wits against. Have fun! Good for grades 3 to 7
This Addition Worksheet Generator lets you generate as many worksheets as you want for addition. The questions can be as simple as 2+3, or as complex as 35495+37204+114532+38962 and beyond. You use a form to say how many problems you want on teh worksheet, and how difficult you want it to be. You can give the permalink to the worksheet to your students so they can do the questions, and keep the solutions permalink secret. Try it now! Good for grades kindy
Get into Groups Of... five minus two! This game is a great game for younger children - because it involves lots of running around! Good for kindy kids, also for 1st and 2nd graders. The page shows how to vary the rules to make it interesting for older children too. Good for grades kindy to 2
The Equivalent Fractions Quiz is an online quiz for testing whether kids know how to do equivalent fractions. Take a ride on a spaceship, or help a pegasus raid an evil magician's castle! Good for grades 4 to 6
One of these addition and subtraction worksheets is especially designed as a learning tool, not just a revision exercise. The sums are ordered so that the child working through them will discover for themselves the relationship between addition and subtraction, and other important points. There are some plain vanilla revision worksheets too! Good for grades kindy and 1
The 1 to 9 game is a game where players have to collect three numbers that add up to 15. It will help teach arithmetic to younger kids. For older kids, it will help them with strategic and logical thinking. The game's page shows how to vary the rules to make it suitable for any elementary school grade. Good for grades 2 to 6
The Simplifying Fractions Quiz is a quiz like the other fractions quizzes on this size - you help your avatar reach their goal by answering fractions questions. In this case, the fractions questions are about fraction simplification. Good for grades 4 to 6
This Weekly Puzzle Google Gadget will show you a new math puzzle every week. If you don't want to visit the web page each week, you can put the gadget on your own web page, or on your personalized google start page. Good for grades 4 to 12
Traveling with kids aged 10 to 99? Take along this Math Card Game and keep them up to speed on their arithmetic! Good for grade 4 and up. Good for grades 5 to 7
The Multiplying Fractions Quiz is yet another fractions quiz game, this time for multiplication. See if you can help the spaceship reach the stars of the milky way! Good for grades 5 to 7
This Math Board Game will ensure kids get a lot of mental arithmetic practice! Good for grade 4 and up. This site also has a Times Table Board Game... see below! Good for grades 5 and 6
This Set Of Tiles can be used to help teach kids how to add and subtract numbers of more than one digit. Good for, say, first to third graders, or anyone who just doesn't 'get' the idea of carrying and borrowing 1's. Good for grades 2
Print out and make this set of Fractions Dominoes. It's a fractions activity designed to help kids recognise how much of a circle each fraction represents. Unlike some other math games, winning is not just about being better at math - but the game nonetheless provides great learning opportunities. Good for grades 2 and 3
Or play a game of Math Hangman? "Three strikes and you're out" is the rule as kids try to guess the hidden math word or sum! Good for almost any grade level! Good for grades 2 to 7
Mathino is a game that can be played with an ordinary pack of cards. It's based on a common card game, Cassino, that already is good for kids learning arithmetic. Good for grades 1 to 3, maybe even 4! Good for grades 1 to 3
Here's a large collection of Equivalent Fractions Worksheets to give math students practice checking whether fractions are equivalent or not. Good for grades 4 to 6
In the brain game Primary Colors players are presented with a grid of colored beads. By jumping bead over bead, every bead must be changed to red, green or blue. There are 24 built-in puzzles to try, or you can ask the computer to generate random puzzles, or even design your own puzzles and link to them from facebook, twitter or your blog. Good for grades 4 to 12
This Checkerboard (or Chessboard) Jigsaw Puzzle will be a great challenge for your primary school kids. Watch them try and try to arrange the pieces until they succeed! Good for grades 4 to 7
This Angle Geometry Quiz tests your knowledge of a few facts relating to angles. Race against the clock as you prove your skills! Topics covered include the interior angles of triangles and quadrilaterals, angles near parallel lines, lines meeting at a point and others. Good for grades 7 to 11
Try your 2nd graders to 7th graders on the Pizza Cutting Puzzle! This puzzle can be made as easy or as hard as you like, so you can tune it for any age group. Good for grades 3 to 12
In a Cryptarithm puzzle, each digit of an arithmetic sum has been replaced with a letter of the alphabet. The aim of the puzzle is to restore the original sum. These puzzles are sometimes called alphametics or crypt-arithmetics. You can get many more such puzzles from the resources available at www.cryptarithmania.com. Good for grades 5 to 12
This Power Puzzle is an exercise to get kids exploring numbers with their calculator, and observe patterns in the numbers they explore. Good for grades 5 to 12
Here's a fun game that is almost guaranteed to make your kids love math, particularly addition. They'll love it for one simple reason - food! To play the game, you only need a printout of the colorful picture provided (there's also a black-and-white version), and a supply of small yummy snacks. Sultanas worked best for my son. Full instructions, and tips on how to avoid behavior pitfalls, are provided. Good for grades kindy
This money counting memory game allows kids from the United States, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada the EU and Singapore to practice counting money in a familiar game Good for grades 2 and 3Want to play sudoku online? You can at this page. The page also has links to some printable sudoku for kids, and a sudoku solver. If you're a sudoku fan, make sure you visit this page and try out the puzzles it provides. Puzzles can be symmetric, and there are five difficulty levels. Good for grades 4 to 12
The Dot Joining Game is not a join-the-dots puzzle, but a two-player paper-and-pencil game. I've described the game, and also described how you can help your fourth, fifth and sixth graders to unlock the hidden mathematical patterns behind the game. Good for grades 6 and 7
In this puzzle, the goal is to cut a Heart-Shaped Biscuit into three pieces, so that each piece contains only one color of sprinkles. The cuts will be very twisty and wiggly, but that's fine for this puzzle. Because of the shape of the biscuit, this puzzle is perfect for around Valentine's Day, but it can also be used at any other time of the year. Good for grades 3 to 6
The Adding Fractions Quiz is a quiz game like the other fractions quiz games on this site. Solve fraction addition problems to get to the final goal. The problems get tougher and tougher the further you progress. Good for grades 5 to 7
Think you're good at subtracting fractions? Try this Fraction subtraction quiz and test your skills. Use them to rescue a pegasus, spaceship or a clownfish. Good for grades 5 to 7
These Common Denominator Worksheets provide plenty of opportunity to practice putting fractions over a common denominator. Each worksheet prints out onto one page, and there are 50 worksheets total. Good for grades 4 to 6
To complement the online version, I've prepared a Printable Version of Color Switcher. Color Switcher is a puzzle game - you start with some beads on a board, and the goal is to change the colors of all the beads using a series of jumps. This web page has ideas for how you can prepare your own color switcher puzzle set, and has links to printable puzzle booklets with dozens of puzzles to try to solve. Good for grades 3 to 7
Dinosaur Dodger is inspired by a paradox in probability, called the Absent Minded Driver Paradox. You need to advise some lost explorers whether to go straight or turn off the track. You choose how likely each choice is, and see if your choice helps get more explorers safely home. Helps develop kids' intuition for probability, and (if they look up the strategies and tips blog post) fraction arithmetic too. Good for grades 6 to 12
Peg Solitaire is a classic logic puzzle. At the start, you have a board full of pegs, with just one empty hole. The pegs jump over each other one by one, and when you jump over a peg, you remove it. The goal is to have just one peg left at the end. It's a very challenging puzzle, with very simple rules. Good for grades 2 to 12
In the Math Architect Online Game the goal is to design an apartment with the given area. The catch? Each room is a square, and you must have as few rooms as possible! This makes the game challenging enough to keep kids occupied, and deep enough to keep them learning as they play. There is also a high scores table showing the best players each month, year and for all time, and some ideas for playing math architect as a paper and pencil game. Good for grades 4 to 12
This Fraction Simplifying Puzzle challenges kids to simplify a collection of fractions and observe which ones can and can not be simplified. There are variants of the puzzle that make it suitable for kids just learning fractions, all the way up to lower high school. Good for grades 4 to 12
In this Polyhedron Puzzle Magic Trick, you are told just the number of edges of a mystery polyhedron. Using your mathemagical powers, you are able to figure out the total number of faces, edges and vertices! This web page shows you how to perform this trick, explains why it works, and explains briefly a similar trick relating to maps. Good for grades 5 to 12
Play Mancala Online at this page! Mancala is a traditional game, played in many variations (with many different names) all over the world. This online mancala game lets you pit your wits against your computer - making the computer as smart or as silly as you like first, of course! The rules of mancala are simple - pick up some seeds out of a hole on your side of the board, then drop them one by one in successive holes around the board. Good for grades 4 to 14
The Volume Measuring Puzzle is a classic puzzle. The goal is to measure out the a certain volume of water. You have two cups you can use, unfortunately, neither cup is the correct size for the job! So you need to pour water from one cup to the other, and back to the water source repeatedly until finally one of the cups contains the correct amount. This web page contains two playable versions (one with two cups, one with three) and some tips for offline play. Good for grades 4 to 8