Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids

This page lists all the grade 4 math games on this website. If you are a teacher or parent of fourth graders, you'll surely find something useful here!

It's actually quite hard to classify games into "grades". There's a few reasons for this. Firstly, different school zones cover different topics in different grades. In some countries or states, kids move through math topics faster than in others. The result is that a math skill that kids learn in grade 4 in one place might be taught in grade 3 or even 2 somewhere else.

Another reason is that some students learn quicker than others. A bright grade 4 student might be quite happy learning grade 5 or 6 math skills.

So please, although I've assigned "grade levels" to each game, please take these levels as just my best guess. They aren't matched to any particular curriculum used in any particular place - after all, this website gets visitors from almost every country in the world. So check out the games below, use your judgement to decide if I've pitched them too high or low for your particular children, and do explore the lists of games for other grades!

Here's links to the other lists...

• Kindergarten Math Games
• Grade One Math Games
• Grade Two Math Games
• Grade Three Math Games
• Grade Five Math Games
• Grade Six Math Games
• Grade Seven Math Games

Sugar Sugar is a cool geometry game. Sugar pours out from a place near the top of the screen, and your goal is to make the sugar fall into the correct cups. You do this by drawing on the screen with the mouse, and watching as sprinkles of sugar trickle down the lines you draw. Challenging and fun! Good for grades 3 to 12

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

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

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

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

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

This 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Want 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, that's all for now. But visit back often, so that you'll always be the first to see any new grade four math games that I put on this site!

Yours, Dr Mike....