Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids

Welcome! Below you'll see a list of the pages of this site that I've most recently updated or uploaded to Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids. You can

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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!

Design and make your own Paper Polyhedra right in your web browser with this java applet. You can design beautiful symmetric shapes with an interactiove 3D view, then print out a plan to help you make a model of the shape out of cardboard or paper. Finally, you can share your net with your friends by email, facebook, or whatever, so they, too, can enjoy your masterpiece.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...