Math skills are an essential part of learning for children of all ages, so it’s important to make learning math fun and engaging! These free printable math games and hands-on math activities for kids offer lots of different ways for kids to learn number skills and mathematical concepts.
Fun math games
Using fun math games is a great way to encourage kids to practice math! Use these math games for kids of all ages taht includ both free math games, hands-on math activities, and more to make math an enjoyable activity for kids of all ages. We’ve arranged all the math activity ideas by age – preschool math games, fun kindergarten math games, cool 1st grade math games, exciting 2nd grade math games, enjoyable 3rd grade math games, handy 4th grade math games, and even 5th grade math games too.
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Cool Math Games
There his a huge variety of skills included from counting, shapes, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, roman numerals, fractions, factors, telling time with a clock, counting coins, subtracting money, place value, measurement, composite numbers, and more. These printable math games for elementary age students can be used at home, for summer learning, and as extra practice or math centers in the classroom to help learn new skills or practice and reinforce prior learning.
Math Games for Kids
Let’s make math fun with this bumper list of math activities and games for kids! These fun math games for kids are sure to keep everyone happily working on math skills. From free printable math games to super cool hands on math games, your kids will have so much fun they won’t even notice they are doing math!
Preschool Math Games
- Hole Punching Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable math game will have kids working on fine motor skills as well as math skills. - Catapult Math Game from Relentlessly Fun Deceptively Educational.
Your kids will go wild for this fun catapult math game. - DIY Ladybug Counting Game from B-Inspired Mama.
This cute math game for preschool will help your kids learn lots of early math skills. - Firefly Make 10 Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This math game helps kids practice counting, adding and subtracting. - Muffin Tin Counting Game from Mess for Less.
This is a fun DIY preschool math game. - Monster Math by Childhood Beckons at Inner Childhood Fun.
This combination math game and craft is a fun way to practice addition and subtraction. - Water Bead Math Games from Kids Activities Blog.
This hands on math game is perfect for a hot summers day! - Bowling counting to 10 activities with free printable puzzles
Math games for preschoolers
- Pumpkin Sums Addition Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Make practicing addition fun with this free printable pumpkin math game. - Math Games with Animal Counters from Learners in Bloom.
Gran some animal figurines and try this fun hands on math game. - Spring Flower Math Game from B-Inspired Mama.
This is a simple and colorful math game that is perfect for Spring. - Bee Math Game from Picklebumms.
Preschoolers will love practicing counting and addition with this buzzy bee math game. - Fried Chicken Counting Activities for Preschoolers with free printable activity
- Bee Hive Matching Shapes activity for pre-k
- Christmas Counting Math Game for preschoolers
- Lion Addition to 5 Games is a great way to work on adding numbers 1-5
- Spring 2d shapes game for young learners
- PB & J Number counting game
- Printable Train Counting game for pre-k and k5 students monewith so many options!
- Bug Count to 20 game to print and play!
- Plus don’t miss our preschool worksheets and fun learning activity ideas!
Kindergarten Math Games
- Safari count to 30 game – free printable
- Colorful Ordinal Numbers Game is a fun way math game for kindergarten students
- 2d and 3d Shape Game for children working on learning their shapes
- Free Pattern Block Pictures allow students will work on following directions, matching shapes, and simple reasoning skills
- Shape game for kindergarten building shapes with popsicle sticks and free printable task cards
- Hundreds Chart Battleship Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This fun free printable game is a great way to help your kids master counting numbers 1 to 100 and recognizing number patterns. - Don’t Break The Piggy Bank Money Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable coin game is a great way to teach money to kids.
Math Games
- Lego Math Games from Nurture Store.
Try one of these fun Lego math games with your kids. - Fun Math Card Games from What do We Do all Day?
This easy to play math game which teaches kids ways to make 10 with basic addition and subtraction skills. - Pool Noodle Addition Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Practice adding to 10 with this fun, hands on, math game using pool poodles. - Gross Motor Addition Game from Learn Play Image.
Get the kids moving while they learn simple addition with this fun and active math game. - Scrabble Addition Game from The Measured Mom.
This is a fun math game using scrabble tiles to work in basic addition. - Addition Tic-Tac-Toe Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Turn regular old tic tac toe into a fun math game to practice addition with this free printable. - Gross Motor Math Game from No Time for Flashcards.
This is a great active math game that is perfect for a rainy day inside.
Math games for kindergartners
- Subtraction Smash is a fun subtraction game where students use playdough to understand what it means to take away numbers
- Roll to 100 math game for kindergarten and first graders
- Domino counting game for kids to make practice enjoyable
- Free Printable Connect 4 Addition Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable connect four math game is a great way for k5 students to practice addition. - Gingerbread Addition Game from 123 Homsechool 4 Me.
Kids will love practicing addition with this Christmas math game. - Pete The Cat Math Game from Kindergarten Worksheets and Games.
If your kids love Pet the Cat they’ll love this hands on math game. - Ping Pong Ball Toss Math Game from Buggy and Buddy.
Practice comparing numbers with this fun and easy to make math game for kids - Ordinal Numbers Kindergarten Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
If you are working on teaching ordinal numbers, you will love this free printable math game!
Free Math Games
- Kindergarten Math Bingo will help students work on number recognition of numbers up to 100
- Groundhog Day Math working on using two numbers to equal 10
- Under the Sea Subtraction within 5 Games with a free printable board game to play
- Addition within 5 games to gain fluency for early learners
- Fluency within 5 math game for kindegarten or this watermelon math
- Free printable Addition within 10 games for early learners
- Rabbit Shape Game to work on shape recognition with printable freebie
- Valentine’s Day Math Puzzles for kindergartners is a fun and free way to work on simple addition
- Free Subitizing Games for kindergarten math
- Shape bingo is such a fun way to work on shape recognition
- Simple Ladybug addition game for math practice
- Hands-on Goldfish subtraction game
- Doggy addition games for kindergarten – free printable!
- Plus don’t miss all our free kindergarten worksheets, lessons, educaitonal activities,a nd more!
1st Grade Math Games
- Hoppy Addition Frog Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable math game with cute little hopping frogs is such a fun way for kids to practice math skills. - Skip Counting Games to help Kinder and 1st grade students work on counting by 2s, 3s, and 5s
- Subtraction Checkers Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable math game is a fun way to practice math skills. - Patriotic subtraction game is a fun way to practice solving simple equations
- Free Printable Summer Math Games from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Your kids will love practicing math over the summer break with these fun free printable math games - Tic-Tac-Toe Free Printable Telling Time Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Try this free printable tic tac toe game to help kids practice telling time to the hour. - Insect telling time game for working on time to the hour and half hour
- Skip Counting Rocket Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This is an ‘out of this world’ way to practice skip counting with your kids! - Nocturnal Animals Addition and Subtraction Games Printable is a great way for first graders to achieve fluency!
- Mini-Golf money game for first graders
- Let’s review counting to 100 with counting to 100 games freebie
- Ice Cream Tens Ones Place Value game for first grade students
- Learning about US money with coin puzzles
- See all our 1st grade worksheets, games, science, lessons, and more!
2nd grade Math Games
- Robot Counting Money Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Practice counting money with this free printable game. - Free Printable Subtraction BINGO Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This free printable math game is a great way to practice subtraction with various levels for 2nd graders. - Two Digit Addition Math Game with a free printable to make practicing adding fun
- 2 Digit Addition Game helps improve accuracy, speed, and fluency
- Free Skip Counting Puzzles to work on fluency so grade 2 students are ready for multiplication
- Counting Coins Games for 1st grade and 2nd graders (printable for easy prep!)
- Carnival subtracting money game for second graders
- Free Hungry Catperpillar counting money game
- Build-a-Sundae place value game including hundreds, tens, and ones
- Introduce students to multiplication with this free printable multiplication puzzles
- Leap frog Multiplication Game helps children review facts to achieve fluency quickly
- Pizza fractions game or this fraction bingo is fun and free, plus a great visual for elementary age students
- No-prep fraction games printable makes it easy to practice
- Don’t miss all our 2nd grade worksheets, lessons, games, and more!
3rd Grade Math Games
- Simplifying fraction board games free printables
- Flower Equivalent Fractions Game for third grade students is a simple and effective way to review.
- Connect 4 Fraction Game with hands-on manipulative element
- Free Fraction Bingo game for students
- Pirate reducing fractions to lowest terms game
- 3 digit addition math game puzzles or this holiday three digit addition game
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Place Value Games from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while learning about place value to thousands with this fun math game. - Place Value Pirate game for place values with ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands
- Multiplication Hopscotch Printable Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Kids will love this free printable math game to help them learn their multiplication tables - Free Printable Multiplication Spinner Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This fun, free printable multi digit multiplication game is for 3rd grade and 4th grade students. - Multiplication Game that you can print and play to practice multiplying with grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 too.
- Apple picking printable multiplication math games for grade 3
- DIY Multiplication Game from Grasping for Objectivity.
Make practicing multiplication fun and competitive with this great DIT math game. - Honeycomb multiplication math games for introducting multiplying to kids in a fun, visual way.
- Snowman multiplication game puzzles to make practicing exciting!
- Christmas Multiplication math practice while creating a mystery picture
- Division for 3rd grade puzzles to make learning and reviewing fun
- Telling Time Game – print these free mazes for students to work on telling time on an analog clock to hour, half hour, and quarter hour too
- Bump Clock Game practicing telling time clocks to hour, half hour, and quater past as well
- Telling Time puzzles for practice reading a clock
- Pumpkin puzzles are a fun, hands-on way to practice math with a multiplication game
- See all our 3rd grade worksheets, games, lessons, and activities
4th Grade Math Games
- Division 1 Racing from Relentlessly Fun Deceptively Educational.
This is a super fun math game for kids who love cars and racing! - Popsicle puzzles division game for grade 4
- Baseball division games pdf for practicing dividing numbers with students
- Knights Quest division games 4th grade – fun and free practice!
- Division Wheels printable activity
- Review and work on fluency with multiplication tic-tac-toe
- Candy corn math practicing multiplicaiton and division with students
- Free Printable Apple Fraction Math Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This Apple Fraction Game is a great way to work on simplifying and equivalent fractions while having fun playing. - Lucky Leprechaun Factors Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
This is the perfect math game for some St Patrick’s Day fun! - Fun Roman Numerals Game to print and play to practice
- Prime and Composite Numbers sorting game for fourth grade students.
- Division checkers cool math games free printable, no-prep practice
- Skip counting mazes – free printables
- See all our 4th grade worksheets, games, and activities!
5th Grade Math Games
- Pumpkin Order of Operation Game for helping fifth graders practice what order to do math equations while having fun
- Grade 5 measurement game where students will work on estimating and converting with a hands-on math hunt
- Free Comparing Fractions Game Printable
- See all our FREE 5th grade worksheets, games, and activities!
**Find even more fun math games with this huge list of 250+ free printable math games!
Math Activities for Kids
While the following ideas are not technically games, they are fun activities that will get kids excited about learning, practicing, and reviewing important math skills.
- Math Mystery Worksheets are a fun activity to practice math while solving a word problem mystery! These are great for K, 1, and grade 2.
- Money Spelling Words allows elementary age students to practice two important skills at the same time – work on spelling words while working on adding American coin values
- Sort the turkey feathers in this simple and engaging odd and even number activity for kindergartners and grade 1.
- Lacing Plates is a fun, hands-on skip counting activity that is great practice that is self-checking!
- Number Playdough mats use playdoh to practice counting in a creative way
- Free counting wheels are a number activities for preschoolers printable activity kids will want to use
- Grab a flashlight and our free constellation flashlight template to make shapes come to life
- Spin and match free printable shape matching activity for pre-k and k5
- Lego Numbers Activity for early learners
- Turkey counting activity let’s children dab and count, practicing skip counting by 10s while creating their turkeys
- Free Printable Measuring Bugs Activity from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
Kids will love learning to use a ruler with this super cute measuring bugs activity!
See 2000+ math activities and lots of free math worksheets!
Printable math games
Math games are an engaging and effective way to teach elementary age students important mathematical concepts!
Research has shown that incorporating games into the curriculum can help improve students’ understanding and retention of mathematical skills. According to a study published in the “Journal of Educational Psychology,” students who played math games regularly showed significant improvement in their math abilities compared to those who did not.
Not only do math games make learning fun, but they also help develop critical thinking skills, boost confidence, and promote teamwork. So why stick to monotonous worksheets when you can spice up math lessons with interactive and exciting games? Give it a try and watch your little learners excel in math!
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