More Fun Math Activities for Kids

The amazing thing about math is that you can use it everywhere, anytime and in a wide variety of ways. Math follows us through out normal routine of life (calculating costs of items, calculating discounts, etc...); and that is exactly what makes it so useful.

You can use a variety of fun math activities to teach your child math and develop his mathematical thought.

I imagine that you already practice math with your child. Every parent teaches their child to count from a very early age and to solve mathematical sums etc.

This page was designed to supply you with ideas for more fun math activities. I imagine you wouldn't be against having some extra ideas for math activities, would you?

Bull's Eye

• Draw a bull's eye with three circles on a piece of paper or print out here.
• On the center circle write the number 5, on the middle circle write the number 3, and on the outer circle write the number 1.
• Your child and you should toss a coin at the bull's eye to accumulate points. The numbers on the bull's eye represent the points. If the coin lands outside of the bull's eye, 0 points are awarded.
• Take turns tossing the coin and write your points on a scoreboard.
• At the end of the game your child must calculate his total.

Going Shopping

• Collect empty grocery boxes and write prices on each item, in whole numbers.
• Arrange the boxes as in a store.

• Prepare notes of paper money (not real money of course).
• And now it's time to go shopping. The object of the game is to buy items according to the allocated amount of money in your possession.
• To start off you should be the shopkeeper and your child should be the customer. If the total cost of your child's purchases amount to below his budget, explain to him that he will receive change. If the total cost of your child's purchases exceeds the allocated amount of money, then explain to your child that he will have to forego one or more of the items that he has chosen.
• Now switch roles. You be the customer and your child the shopkeeper.

Who has the highest?

• Extract from a pack of cards all the numbers between 1 and 10 (a total of 40 cards).
• Divide the cards into two groups (all the red cards in one group and all the black cards in the other).

• Each player receives one group of cards.
• Shuffle the cards and in turn each player places one card on the table.
• The player with the highest card wins both cards and places them on the side.
• If both player's cards are the same number, each player must place three extra cards on top of their first card. The player whose third card is the highest wins all of the cards and places them on the side.
• When a player runs out of cards he takes the cards that he has placed on the side, shuffles them and continues to play the game with them.
• The game is over when one of the players is left with no cards. The winner of the game being the player with all of the cards.