Best Math Games for Homeschoolers

Obviously your homeschool family has lots of choices about how your child learns. Most families will use traditional school materials. But naturally your child’s learning style fits playful activities too.

Math board games can be part of your usual math lesson. It can also be disguised as a family game. A family game is played at any time not only during math lessons.

A math game can also be a "treat" that is played instead of doing the usual math lesson. By presenting a math game as play rather than a part of school work kids are more likely to enjoy the game. 

Early math games teach the most essential math skills to younger children. This includes skills like counting and understanding numbers, which must be understood well to advance to more complex math calculations like addition and division. Game play is a good way to develop a good understanding of this knowledge foundation.

The early math games - Flippity Frogs and Pizza Mania are for children aged 4 to 8 years. Both have a simple and more advanced game to play (so two different ways to play the game). 

Two Many Monkeys is recommended for children 6 - 10 years, but younger children of 4 or 5 years of age also love this game (as do adults). It's a fast, quick and fun card game that reinforces first math skills.

Pictured: Pizza Mania Game courtesy of Amazon

Math skills like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication need a lot of practice. The most common way is by reciting and repetition. But this method is boring for your child. Being able to repeat a multiplication table also does not mean your child understands the math skill.

Clearly playing board games encourages your child to practice and revise these harder math skills by making math fun. 

Pictured: Sum Swap Game

Fractions are a hard concept for your child. But they are essential part of your homeschooling plan. It is easier for your child to find out what fractions are with hands-on activities. These fraction games are all hands-on activities to help your child understand how fractions work.

Pizza is a common theme for fraction games because it is easy to show children fractions with the slices. If you would like to use something other than pizza for math the Frog Pond Game is a good choice. 

Pictured: Pizza Fraction Fun Game courtesy of Amazon