Printable preschool math games

10 Free Printable Math Games for Preschoolers — Lemon & Kiwi Designs

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Dec 9

Written By Lemon Kiwi

Most preschoolers will find that learning math concepts can be challenging and sometimes boring, but it can be easily made fun once you gamify it, which is why kids love our free counting dot marker printable worksheets.

With fun printable math games, kids will absorb math skills so quickly that they won’t even realize that they’re learning and studying. Perfect for rainy days at home and fun for the whole family and classroom, our roundup of our favorite 10 free printable math board games will help preschoolers, kindergarteners, and early elementary kids practice their counting, number recognition, multiplication, subtraction, addition, and division skills.

1. Gumball Dice Game

2. Learning Numbers Board Game

3. Heart Addition Math Mat

4. Subtraction Board Game

5. Poppin’ Doubles Game

6. Number Sense Bingo Game

7. Teen Number Rainbow Clip Cards

8. Simplifying Fractions Game

9. Math Cootie Catchers

10. Ice Cream Skip Counting Puzzles

This free printable Gumball Machine Dice Game from Glued To My Crafts is a great counting and number recognition game for preschoolers. By getting kids to roll the dice and count the number of colorful buttons or candy that should go into the gumball machine, your children will also get to learn bonus lessons on shape and color recognition.

If you have preschoolers learning to count from 6 to 10, then this free printable Learning Numbers Board Game from Life Over Cs is a must-have. In this math board game, kids will cards, count the number of objects on the cards, and move their marker to the next space with the corresponding number.

This Heart Addition Math Game from Miss Mae’s Days is a great resource to pair with our highly popular free Valentine’s Day math activities. Print out the free math mat, grab some dice, and some colorful beads or heart-shaped candy to practice addition.

This free printable Subtraction Race Board Game from The Measured Mom includes a colorful printable math board game as well as accompanying free subtraction flash cards to help kids in kindergarten and first grade practice basic operations.

Who doesn’t love popcorn or kettle corn? Your preschoolers and elementary students will be poppin’ with joy with this free printable math game called Poppin’ Doubles by Classroom Freebies, which helps kids to master core subtraction doubles facts and the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.

Understanding and recognizing numbers in different formats is a core skill that will help us from childhood through adulthood. This free printable Number Sense Bingo Game from Missing Tooth Grins will help build number sense for kids in preschool and first grade.

Counting beyond 10 and into the teen numbers can be tricky for young learners. These free printable math flash cards called Teen Number Rainbow Clip Cards provide a fun and colorful hands-on learning activity for kids to count their teen numbers.

For a more advanced math game, this free printable math game for kids is a variation of BINGO to help students in elementary school to practice simplifying fractions. The Simplifying Fractions Game from You’ve Got This Math challenges students to find the greatest common factor to turn fractions into their simplest form.

Also known as paper fortune tellers, cootie catchers are a fun hands-on way for kids get excited about learning math through play. These free printable Math Cootie Catchers from 123 Homeschool 4 Me include printable math game templates for preschoolers and elementary students to practice addition, subtraction, numbers, and doubling.

Learning how to skip count takes lots of practice and memorization and problem solving, but these free printable Ice Cream Skip Counting Puzzles from The Stem Laboratory make it fun for kids (and maybe it’ll make them ‘hungry’ to learn more math concepts through play!).

If you and your kids loved these free printable math board games, then be sure to check out these 11 free printable literacy board games for kids, as well as our list of coolest math toys and games for kids and our library of Free Math Activities for Kids to download math activity books, measurement worksheets, and color by number printables.

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Preschool aged children can begin to learn early math skills while having fun!  Learning sessions should be child led and interest based and are most effective when targeted in short sessions of table play and conversation.  These games are not meant to be frustrating for young children, but a spring board to encourage them to learn independently and alongside Mom, Dad or Teacher. Our goals for preschool are basic understanding of shapes, early counting, classifying and beginning sequencing.

Free Printable Number Line

Use these free printable number lines to teach children beginning counting and addition. These number lines work well for children's desks or minioffice folders. Show children how to use their fingers to hop from number to number as they count.

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Count and Clip Cards

Count and Clip cards are a great way for children to work on counting, number recognition and small motor skills. Children count the number of ocean animals on the cards, find the correct number on the bottom and then clip it with a paperclip or a clothespin.

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Printable Tangram Cards

Tangrams are a great way for young children to build visual and spatial skills. Children arrange the shapes to form pictures. This is a set of printable tangrams with coordinating picture cards. There are two versions of the cards available one with outlines and one with the full shadow.

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Building Block Visual Cards

This is a simple learning center you can set up for children learning their numbers. Each number card features different ways to build and arrange square blocks to created a shape. We recommend using these cards with wooden blocks however, you can use Unifex cubes, legos, alphabet blocks or whatever you have on hand they just might not line up appropriately.

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Counting Cupcakes Game

This game is super easy, but your children will fall in love with it. Simple draw a number then place the appropriate amount of cherries on top of the cupcake. Additionally you can play the game backwards placing the cherries on top, counting them and then finding the correct number. Children work on identifying numerical value and basic counting skills.

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Ice Cream Scoops Counting Game

This is a learning game for children who are learning basic counting and sequencing skills. Children can order the ice cream cones from smallest to largest in size, or they can count the scoops and find the appropriate cherry to put on top.

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Printable Shape Sorting Game

This game allows children to take a closer look at day to day objects to determine what shapes they see. Children then sort the object into the respective category; Circle, Triangle, Square, Rectangle. This is a fun way for children to reinforce their knowledge of shapes and bridge the connection between flat and geometric shape identification.

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Cupcake Counting Game

This is a learning center for children to count the cherries on each cupcake and match them to the correct number. Printable numbered cupcakes are provided or children can use number tiles as well.

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Counting Buttons Game

Use our printable buttons, or supply your own (cinnamon canies maybe) and show children how to help the Gingerbread man find the correct amount of buttons. This game works on early counting skills then can be expanded to include early addition as well.

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Math games for preschoolers and first graders

The development of a child's mathematical abilities is one of the aspects of preparing for school. It can be difficult for a preschooler to operate with numbers, so experts advise starting a child’s acquaintance with numbers and mathematical calculations from games. Complex and sometimes boring examples and tasks do not cause rejection in the baby when they are presented in the form of interesting colorful tasks.

If a child understands at an early age that mathematics is exciting and fun, it will be much easier for him to master the school subject. By the way, mathematical games develop not only the skills of working with numbers, but also logic and non-standard thinking. What are the mathematical games for preschoolers - in our material.

Math games for children 4-5 years old

Math games for preschoolers 4-5 years old include simple math examples for addition and subtraction within 10.

1. Math game "Labyrinth"

In this math game the child is faced with the task of seeing the pattern, going through the maze and helping the squirrel find the acorn.

Print the picture. Give the child a pencil. Let him draw a path along which the squirrel can get to the acorn.

The squirrel has started its journey. She took two steps. What is the difference between 3 and 1? How much more is it? And the number 5 compared to 3? It is desirable that the child himself see the pattern (adding 2 to each previous number). But if it doesn’t work out, don’t worry — explain. Calculate the next step together, and then let the baby go on his own.

2. Math crossword

If a child can count to 10, they may be interested in doing a math crossword.

Print out the crossword. Tell your child how to work with a mathematical crossword puzzle, how the numbers fit into it. You can explain such concepts as "horizontal" and "vertical".

Explain that each row and column must have correct equalities. Emphasize that a mathematical crossword puzzle differs from the usual example in that an unknown number can appear anywhere in it.

Show that in a crossword it is better to solve the examples not in an arbitrary sequence, but by moving from one intersection to another. And it is very important to do everything right, because a mistake in one place will lead to inaccuracies in another.

3. Mathematical game "Count the beads"

As in other examples, the picture can be printed.

There are two different tasks here.

On the left picture there are beads that you need to count and write the answers below, as shown in the first picture. Do not give the child the task right away - invite him to think about what the numbers below (in the first picture) mean. Perhaps he himself will find a correspondence between the number of beads and the number below. In this case, he will easily enter all the correct answers.

On the second, right, block of pictures, the number of beads is the same everywhere, and the number of filled beads is signed below. The kid can also guess about this on his own. After that, he will gladly color the required number of beads in each picture.

With this activity you can explain to your child what an abacus is and how to use it.

4. Mathematical game “Take the bear to the bear cub”

Examples are written on the ice. In this game, the child must complete each task and write the answer on the ice. After that, you can pave the way of the bear to the bear cub along the ice, on which the numbers 1, 2, 3 are written, and then in order up to 10.

Math games for preschoolers 6-7 years old

Math games for children 6-7 years old are a bit more difficult and suitable for kids who can count to at least 20 and solve addition and subtraction problems in two steps.

1. Mathematical game "Insert the missing number"

The meaning of this mathematical game is to insert numbers into empty cells that come in sequence before, between or after a given number.

Thus, the child's idea of ​​the "number line" is formed.

For convenience, you can first draw this line, on which numbers are indicated from left to right, increasing each time by one. Then the baby will understand what “before”, “between” and “after” means, and will easily do all the exercises.

2. Mathematical game “Put fruits in baskets”

Print the picture, cut out all fruits and baskets separately. The kid must solve a mathematical example that is written on a fruit and "put" it in the correct basket.

These examples show the child that the same number can be obtained in several ways.

Note that the example does not show the same number of ways to get different numbers. So, 7 is obtained by five options: 4 + 3; 7 - 0; 1+6; 2+5; 14 - 7. And 18 - three: 9 + 9; 20 - 2; 12 + 6.

Explain that there are other ways to get the number 18. Give an example or have the child come up with their own.

3. Mathematical game "Find a suitable umbrella"

In this math game, you need to match an umbrella to each cloud. To do this, the child must solve the examples written inside the cloud and the umbrella, and then place the cloud over the desired umbrella.

In this task, you can not cut anything, but simply connect pictures with the same answer. Each cloud corresponds to one umbrella.

Math games for 1st grade

Math games for schoolchildren are suitable for children who can count up to 30, complete examples in several actions and have a basic understanding of fractions.

1. A chain of mathematical examples

On the path of the butterfly to the flower, do all the suggested actions. Some of the numbers are already in circles, others must be entered by solving the examples given above.

This math task is not for the little ones: here you need to be able to count to at least 30.

2. Math game "How much does a salad cost?"

The picture shows vegetables and their "value". Below are plates with a different set of vegetables. Invite the child to calculate how much each salad “costs”.

3. What is the fraction in the picture?

Pictures will help explain to your child what fractions are.

The images show circles divided into equal parts. Some of them are painted over. First you need to calculate how many parts there are. Next - how many of them are painted over.

The essence of a fractional number is easy to explain in this way.

For the first example: the circle is divided into 4 parts; three out of four are shaded, i.e. three-fourths. This is referred to as 3/4.

Second example (below): there are 6 beats in the circle, four of the six are shaded - four sixths, 4/6.

Such an algorithm will allow the child to choose from the options presented the answer corresponding to each circle. To check how the kid understood the material, ask him to show an integer (not a fractional) number on one of the circles, painting over the required number of parts. He will cope with the task if he figured out how a fractional number is formed and how a fraction differs from a whole.

Umnasia offers a large number of mathematical problems for logic and ingenuity for primary and secondary school students. All tasks are presented in the format of an interactive story game with pleasant voice acting and colorful illustrations:

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