Math Games for Elementary Students
For some students, math is a gift that they get to enjoy every day in school and in life; but for many other children, math class is something that must be endured. For these children, math does not come naturally to them, and they find it a challenge to keep up with the more mathematically inclined group of kids.
Children who learn math easily were not gifted with magical genes that give them an unnatural ability to succeed with numbers, and children who do not do well are not doomed to a life without numbers. We all have heard that wise old adage, ‘Practice makes perfect,’ and it applies to math as much as it applies to other areas in life. Students who pay attention in class, do their homework, seek extra help, and study hard will find that numbers become a bit easier every day.
Studying to become better at math does not have to be boring. The following links are math games that are fun, educational and are a good tool to improve a child’s self confidence with math skills.
Numbers and Counting
- Sesame Street This is an online game played with Big Bird from Sesame Street
- Seashell Search Collect shells in a bucket while learning to count
- Connect the Dots and learn to count with Barney
- Count Us In More than a dozen counting games for young children
Arithmetic
- Math Games Nine click-able games for kindergarten and older
- Matho Bingo for math
- Cut the Knot This page has several dozen online games for math learning
- Math Help Games using traditional card games like War
Decimals
- Decifractator Create their own fractions with this decimal/fraction calculator
- Decimal Squares Eight different decimal games to see one problem several different ways
- AAA Math Decimal place calculator and games to associate fractions with decimals
Fractions
- Visual Fractions Fun interactive fractions game
- Platform Scale Learning fractions through the use of an everyday scale
- Fun School This car race game is like a real video game
Graphs
- Hot Math Learn graphing and catch the fly by giving X,Y coordinates
- Graph game ‘Algebra vs. the cockroaches’
- Exploratorium Graph weight on Earth compared to other planets
- Safe Cracker Learn about patterns by cracking a safe
Money
- Money Instructor Learn how to deal with money skills and printable money
- GP Schools Interactive money activities to learn decimals
- PBS Kids A fun game called ‘Mad, Mad Money’
- ClevFed Learn about what money does in ‘Escape from Barter Island’
- E-learning for Kids Money games for ages 5-6
Time
- Telling Time Match times on a clock before time runs out
- Born Thinker Smiley clock game teaches how to read a clock
- Time for Time Interactive analog and digital clock for math and time skills
- Oswego Race the clock and objectively learn how number relationships

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