8 Games and Websites
Technology, when used thoughtfully, can be a powerful tool in supporting students with math anxiety. In this section, you’ll find a curated collection of educational apps and games designed to strengthen foundational math skills, promote problem-solving, and build confidence through low-pressure, engaging experiences. These tools offer opportunities for independent practice, immediate feedback, and joyful exploration, without fear of being wrong.
Whether you’re a parent looking for ways to support math learning at home or a teacher seeking classroom-friendly resources, this collection highlights options that are accessible, age-appropriate, and aligned with math learning goals. From number sense to strategy-based puzzles, these tools encourage a positive attitude toward math and create space for playful learning.
Well-Known Learning Apps
Khan Academy – offers video lessons, exercises, a personalized dashboard that allows students to study at their own pace at school or at home. They focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong math foundations.
Quizlet – AI powered flashcards and study sets used for self study – I have found these are mostly for older elementary students
Kahoot – Quizzes you can take on a large variety of topics. You need an account to access these but there is a free version, and a section on math games. If you pay for an account you can play class Kahoots, and even create your own. Word of warning: not all kahoots have been created by teachers so you might want to preview them ahead of time.
Blooket – another quiz website. You do need an account to access but it is free. Lots of different topics. There is a Teacher Verified stamp for Blookets that are made for academics. You can choose to play a variety of games as you practice skills of your choice.
Math for Love – was created by Dan Finkel and Katherine Cook. They have some great puzzles in their Resources Tab, and a wide variety of Openers, Games and Rich Tasks that are sortable by Grade level in their Free Lessons Section
SolveMe Puzzles – has three types of puzzles, Mobiles which involve balancing symbols, Who Am I give clues to figure out a mystery number, and Mystery Grid which is similar to Sudoku
The Math Viking has almost everything! The author is Kristine, an elementary math specialist. This site is a comprehensive resource hub for elementary math enrichment, specializing in hands-on, low-floor/high-ceiling tasks that engage learners.
Math Enrichment K-6 Ideas, Resources & NCTM Best Practices
Third Space Learning – has a package of “26 Whole Class Games” – to include and engage every student.
26 Whole Class Math Games: Adaptable For All Students
YouCubed – by Jo Boaler – has an extensive variety of games to help build math skills and many videos and articles to help parents, students and teachers. There is a section on YouCubed at Home with activities, and a Parents section with additional reading as well
Everyday Mathematics – developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, this site is with a comprehensive re-K to Grade 6 curriculum support materials including: lesson samplers, support for instructional planning, home links and some games
Online Math Games
Some of these games are perfect for warm-ups or fast finishers but they are all good thinking problems!
Math Agar Math Agar – Play with Math Games – a game where you grown your cell by answering math questions from the grade level and topic of your choice
Math Duck Math Duck 🕹️ Play on CrazyGames – An arcade style game requiring students to fill in missing numbers to complete equations.
Bloxorz Bloxorz 🕹️ Play on CrazyGames – A problem-solving game that uses spatial reasoning as you try to move a block to fall through a hole on the board
Sum Blocks Sum Blocks – Play it Online at Coolmath Games – a game that works on critical thinking and operation skills by solving equations
Sites with Multiple Games
ABCYa has a lot of great games and at levels from Kindergarten to Grade 6. Check it out to find games that match the skills you want your children to practice!
ABCya! • Learning Games and Apps for Kids
Board Games You Can Buy
Adsumudi – Adsumudi – How to Play
A puzzle game that works on skills with basic math operations. You can play on easy or hard.
Card and Dice Games
There are also so many dice and card games that promote math thinking in all ages. From games that you probably remember playing, like Yahtzee, War, Go Fish and 21. Here are a few links to different games!
15 Interesting Math Dice Games For Your Kid [Updated 2021] | MentalMathWorksheets
Here are some quick and easy card games to play:
Addition/Multiplication War – each player flips two cards, adds/multiplies them, and the highest answer wins the round, and the cards.
Closest to 100 – players blindly draw pairs of numbers to build a number closest to 100
Salute – two players each hold a card to their forehead without looking at them, a third player gives the sum/product and players have to guess their number
Place Value Challenge – each player draws 3-4 cards and arranges them to form the biggest number (example 7-3-9 would be 937). The highest number wins
Operation Race – choose a target number (usually two digit) for example 24. Each player draws 3-4 cards and uses any operations to get close to that number. The closes solution wins that round.
Here are some quick and easy dice games to play:
Tic Tac Ten – using a die and a tic tac toe board. each player takes a turn rolling the die. Whatever number they roll they need to place in the tic tac toe board. First player to get a row, column or diagonal that adds up to 10, wins.
Roll and Add/Multiply – roll 2 dice and add/multiply, highest answer wins
Pig – players roll a single die and add to a running total. Each player can stop at any time, but roll a 1 and you lose all of your points from that turn and their turn ends. If they roll any other number they can choose to either roll again or “hold” to save their points for that turn. The goal is to get 100 or exceed 100.
Race to 100 – take turns rolling and adding a cumulative score
Don’t forget the point with all of these games is to play, make math joyful and get children engaged!
