Math Games

Game Websites created by MBAMP Teacher Leaders

These are games sites we know and love from our MBAMP staff

  1. Hujaza: Math, Games, and Learning by Kevin Deutsch
  2. Johnnie’s Math page by Johnnie Wilson

MBAMP’s Favorite Games

Below are links to the rules and how to play the following games:

24 Game 
24 math game

The 24 Game is math game in which the object is to find a way to manipulate four numbers from one to nine so that the end result is 24.

Product Game
Product Game

The Product Game is a fun, interactive game that exercises your skill with factors and multiples.

SET!
Set Game Image

In the game, certain combinations of three cards are said to make up a set. For each one of the four categories of features — color, number, shape, and shading — the three cards must display that feature as either a) all the same, or b) all different.

Blokus
Blockus Game Image

Blokus is the game of spatial reasoning and problem-solving, so everyone’s mind gets a workout within a stimulating block of fun.

Blast Off!
Blast off image

Blast Off is a game of combining the number values of 3 dice to calculate the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 , . . . 12 in that order.  Players can use the operations of +, − , × , ÷

Games by Topic

Addition Facts:

  1. Tic-Tack Ten adding to ten video
  2. a+b=3,
  3. Blast Off directions, Blast Off game boards 
  4. Tic Tac Sums or The Addition Game. Directions, from Youcubed https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/tic-tac-toe-sums/
  5. Salude
  6. The 99 Game (a mental math card game)
  7. Kid’s Integer Card Game
  8. Addition Hangman

Logic

  1. Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, Wiki 
  2. Chop sticks the game , the video

Number Sense

  1. Yahtzee Instructions, Yahtzee score card number sense.(3rd grade and above).  Yahtzee Probability. One teacher’s thoughts about using Yahtzee in the classroom; https://rakiradresources.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/roll-up-math-skills-with-yahtzee/ 
  2. Blast Off rules, Blast Off game boards 
  3. The 24 Game--Number sense, factoring. 2nd – Algebra. 
    1. The rules of The 24-Game using playing cards, 
    2. PDF of a  deck of 24 cards you can print and cut out.
    3. Watch a student made video using the 24 CARDS.
      1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEEu9JxyYo
  4. Dominoes, subitizing, addition and subtraction (K and above).

Multiplication facts and factoring

  1. Factor Game rules, Factor Game Board, factoring (4th grade and above) To play on line: https://illuminations.nctm.org/activity.aspx?id=4134
  2. Product Game, products and factors. (4th grade and above) To play on line: http://illuminations.nctm.org/activity.aspx?id=4213 
  3. The 24 Game--Number sense, factoring. 2nd – Algebra. 
    1. The rules of The 24-Game using playing cards, 
    2. PDF of a  deck of 24 cards you can print and cut out.
    3. Watch a student made video using the 24 CARDS.
      1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEEu9JxyYo

Fractions

  1. Frac-Jac game
  2. Fraction-1, adding fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/12, 5/12 together to get 1. Based on Black Jack, any grade that needs practice with fast fraction sense.
  3. Fraction Card Games
  4. Four more card games, Precent, fractions, algebra , probability.

Graphing

  1. Green Globs, a graphing game for pre-Algebra – Trig. this is a slow moving game, however it is very thought provoking, once the kids get into it.
  2. Hurkel, Alternate Hurkel Board, graphing, compass rose, and logic

Geometry

  1. Behind The Wall, explaining mathematical thinking with pattern blocks.
  2. Read about Polyominoes (PDF), Part 1 lesson narrative for discovering Pentominoes (PDF),  Part 2 pentominoes shapes (PDF) Part 3 Polyominoes lesson plan (PDF) and Part 4 lesson plan pentominoes info (PDF)