The 1 to 9 game, being a two player game, is just perfect for the home environment. The game's page shows how to vary the rules to make it suitable for any age group.

 

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.

 

This is one of two math tricks on this site that let you guess someone's birthday after a sequence of mathematical operations.

 

The Arithmetic Math Game is a good game for a few players, needing good arithmetic skills to compete well. It's more complex though, so if your kids are still young, save it for later.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

In this Chess Jigsaw Puzzle, a chess (or checker) board has been broken into eight pieces. See if your children can join the pieces back together!

 

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.

 

You can use the Dot Joining Game just as a fun game for the kids while camping, or as a classroom exercise to help children realise that math often forms hidden patterns behind ordinary things.

 

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.

 

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.

 

The six different Fractions Quizzes on this site are like an online version of Flashcard Stepping Stones. Choose your fractions topic, then choose which of 3 characters (a pegasus, a clownfish or a rocket) you will help! Then, answer a series of fractions questions until you reach the goal. The further they progress, the more challenging the questions become!

 

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.

 

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.

 

If you need free printable worksheets to give fractions practice to kids, you need to check out my page on Fractions Worksheets. There are over 4000 fractions questions in 350 worksheets on 7 different fractions topics - fraction addition, fraction subtraction, fraction division, fraction multiplication, simplifying fractions, equivalent fractions and common denominators

 

MathGolf is another game where calculators might be handy. Players choose how far they can hit with their iron and wood clubs, then see what they scored for the course. As the tips for parents and teachers explains, the kids will get the most out of it if they plan their strategy first, away from the computer. You might let them use a calculator for the planning bit.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

Math Frozen Bubble is an online interactive bubble buster game that also helps kids practice their arithmetic. Good for grade 4 and up.

 

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!

 

In the Pizza Cutting Puzzle kids try to cut up a square pizza to make it fit in a round tray. Try to cut as few pieces as possible!

 

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.

 

Try this Powers puzzle, an exercise where kids explore numbers with their calculator, and try to spot patterns in the numbers they explore.

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Do you use Speed Math Worksheets to help kids improve their mental arithmetic? Then you'll want to download this spreadsheet, because it can generate new worksheets every day. The worksheets can be either times tables or addition/subtraction worksheets, and you can choose the difficulty level. The spreadsheet is available in either Microsoft Office or OpenOffice formats, and there's a video on the web page showing how to use it.

 

Is your child artistically inclined? Try him or her on this Spirograph Applet. As they enjoy themselves making swirly whirly designs, they are actually picking up some math too.

 

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!

 

Why not try the Traffic Jam Game (or the Online Version)? It's a collection of logic puzzles, ranging from simple to challenging. The brightly-colored playing pieces and simple rules will capture your kid's hearts.