Free Math Games for Elementary Students
Students love math games. Quizzes, racing against time, and breaking some manipulative "eggs" will help students have fun while grasping math concepts on a deeper level. Games, such as those using multiplication flash cards, boost vital repetitive memory, which is especially important when elementary students are fine-tuning multiplication skills. Free online interactive math games are also fun for students to learn at school and at home.
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Free Online Interactive Math Games
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Fact Monster Online provides opportunities for students to play free interactive math games through a knowledgebox link. Players can enjoy games such as, "Baseball Geometry," to freshen up identifying and selecting skills concerning angles. Students can practice addition, multiplication and finding coordinates on a grid, with "Cowboy Math." Simple addition and subtraction games can be found in "Big Count Bayou" while animal counting games or fraction conversions are found in the "Fraction Cafe." Other online sources that provide free interactive math games are Sheppard Software, Fun Brain and CoolMath4Kids.
Free Online Math Printables
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Cool Math 4 Kids Online offers free printable flash cards that can be used within the classroom, for fun group flash card games, such as Quiz Race. Dr-Mikes-Math-Games-For-Kids also offers many free printable math games for kids, such as addition and subtraction tiles and an arithmetic puzzle. Other online sources for free printable elementary math games are KidZone and School Express.
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Free Outdoor Math Games
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Outdoor math games are especially fun when teachers think ahead for all of the possible pitfalls of some of the games that involve water. Ask students to bring extra shirts when you are planning outdoor math games. Fill 40 water balloons. Take the balloons, measuring tapes and clipboards outdoors with your class. Measure out any length you want and mark it with sidewalk chalk. Ask each student to throw a balloon, measure their throw and write it down. Students will enjoy seeing who can throw the farthest. Other outdoor math games include, Hole-in-the-Bucket relay race to practice measuring liquids, and jump rope, where they count by twos, fives, or tens.
Free Classroom Math Games
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"Break My Eggs" requires an empty egg carton and two manipulatives, such as marbles, balls or coins. Write numbers on the bottom of the carton. Divide students into groups of four. Each group gets one egg carton. Instruct students to close the egg carton and shake it. When students open the egg carton, they multiply the two numbers together that the manipulatives rested within and write them out within a multiplication sentence. The team that receives the most correct multiplication sentences wins. Other free classroom games are flashcard quizzes, building angles with craft sticks, and hide and seek numbers, which is finding paper numbers, pre-hidden by you within the classroom, that are addends that equal the number you gave them.
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