This page lists all the printable math games on this site. Actually, most of the games on this site are printable, but some require significant extra preparation. So here is a list of the games on this site that are as close as possible to this goal:
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This set of tiles will be a great help if your child is struggling with multi-digit arithmetic (addition and subtraction). Print, cut out, and follow the steps given. Extra materials needed: scissors, to cut out the tiles.
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. Extra materials needed: a trimmer and some glue
These arithmetic puzzle worksheets could keep your kids occupied for hours. If you need some time, but the kids need some school, this may be just the trick. Extra materials needed: one pencil (although a calculator might help too).
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. Extra materials needed: a photocopy machine, to make lots of enrty forms
The Challenging Math Puzzle 8 Game is a great puzzle that will baffle your 10 to 12 year olds, and even your adult friends, for hours! Print as many gamesheets as you like, read the instructions, and then? "If at first you don't succeed..." heh heh! Extra materials needed: one pencil - and an eraser, or lots of copies of the grid!
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! Extra materials needed: scissors, to cut out the pieces.
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. Extra materials needed: a pencil, and lots of scrap paper!
The Dot Joining Game is a simple paper-and-pencil game, with many hidden mathematical formulae to discover. You can play this game with your kids, and lead them (I show you how on the page) how to help them unlock its hidden mathematical patterns. Extra materials needed: one pencil.
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. Extra materials needed: scissors, to cut out the charts. Pen or pencil during teaching sessions.
This free "fours" contestclosed 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. Extra materials needed: just a pencil, maybe some scrap paper... oh, and a calculator might help
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. Extra materials needed: scissors, glue and some thick cardboard.
The Kindergarten Addition Game provided here is great for teaching basic addition. And your kids will love it! Why? Because it's yummy! Extra materials needed: yummy snacks!
If the Kindergarten Addition Game worked well for the kids you care for, the Kindergarten Subtraction Game is a natural follow-on. Subtraction becomes fun as happy bees feed a hungry hippo! Extra materials needed: more yummy snacks!
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. Extra materials needed: scissors, or a pen.
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. Extra materials needed: scissors, to make the cards. Friends to baffle and amaze!
There's a Math Board Game that will teach kids arithmetic skills as they aim for a goal. Extra materials needed: while playing? Just a good brain for sums!
These Times Table Mazes are good for puzzle-loving children who are learning their 7 and 8 times tables. Extra materials needed: just a pencil!
If you want sudokus to print, you can get as many as you need (I really mean that!) from my printable sudoku page. Sure, there's a few sudoku worksheets to download, with about 240 puzzles, but the page also has a printable sudoku generator that will let you print up to 1500 sudokus at a time - as many times as you like! Bookmark the page, and you'll never run out of sudoku puzzles again... Extra materials needed: pencil, eraser and brain
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. Extra materials needed: a pen or pencil, and perhaps a calculator.
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. Extra materials needed: a pencil - and parental involvement.
This website has a host of times table charts and grids that you can download and print - even up to the 20 times tables! Extra materials needed: something to stick the charts to the wall
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. Extra materials needed: scissors to cut out the pieces. While playing? Brain!
Well, that's all for now! Don't forget to explore this site, to find out the other games available. And bookmark this site, so you can check back from time to time to see what printable math games I've added!
Yours, Dr Mike...
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