Fun Math Games For the Classroom or Home

Math games are ideal for school and home. By adding a few fun math games into the classroom or homework program, you can change ‘I HATE math!’ into ‘I LOVE math!’.

The best thing is that, children don’t even know they’re doing math when it’s so much fun. Just ensure that children are challenged.

Included below are some fun math games for kids for use at home or at school. These are games that practice number skills.

Higher or Lower
This is a terrific math game for practicing ordering of numbers.
You can practice numbers that have 2 digits, 3 digits or more.
To start select the lower and higher number limits, e.g. between 10 and 100.
One player chooses a number and records it on a piece of paper.
The other player/s guesses what they think the number might be. For every guess the first player tells if the chosen number is higher or lower. Play until until a player guesses the number.

Find It First
Use this fun math game to practice basic multiplication tables (or addition, subtraction or division also).
Simply write the answers to tables you are going to practice, randomly over the board or paper, e.g. to practice eight times tables write - 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 etc. To make the game a bit more challenging, you can also add a few other numbers.
Two kids stand or sit either side to the numbers and a multiplication table is given, e.g. 7 multiplied by 8.
Kids compete to be the quickest to find the answer.
The first to find the answer, scores one point and the first to gain three points becomes the winner.
This game is great as a whole class game with children representing their team or you can have a tournament to find who the class champ is with each child having a turn.

Largest Number
This is one of my favorites. It is a simple and fun math game that really engages kids.
Each player rolls the dice. Use
-3 dice for children to practice 3 digit numbers
-4 dice for children to practice 4 digit numbers
-5 dice for children to practice 5 digit numbers
-6 dice for children to practice 6 digit numbers
Every player rolls the dice and records the numbers shown, e.g. 3 4 1 6.
The players then organize these digits to make the largest possible number that they can, e.g. 6431.
The player with the highest number receives one point.

Twenty Questions Number Game
No equipment is required for this kids' math game.
Firstly select a number within the range to be played, e.g. 1- 20, 1-100, 100-1000.
The number is recorded on paper but not shown to the other players.
The other players then ask questions to help them to identify the number.
Only yes/no questions can be asked.
Encourage children to ask general questions to begin with, e.g. Is it even? Is it more than 50? Instead of guessing the number, e.g. Is it 38?

Using games in math offers so much more than just a bit of fun. These games also help to develop a deep understanding of mathematics concepts and a confident attitude towards a sometimes unpopular subject. Don’t be surprised when hear, ‘Gee that was fun! Can we do it again?’

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Teresa Evans is a teacher and parent who uses fun math games to get kids excited about math. To receive your own seven part math games collection visit Making Math More Fun.

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