Math doesn’t have to live only in workbooks and timed drills. In fact, some of the richest math learning happens when our kids don’t even realize they’re “doing math.” That’s why I love bringing board games into our homeschool. Games create an atmosphere of play, strategy, and connection—suddenly math practice feels less like a chore and more like family fun. When the energy is lagging or your child needs a fresh way to engage with numbers, pulling out a math-centered game can shift the whole mood of your day. These are a few of my favorites, the ones that sneak in math facts, problem-solving, and quick thinking while giving us laughter and memories around the table.
Sum Swamp
Encourage basic math drills through fun game play with Sum Swamp. Develop fluency in early math skills as kids play the game. Perfect for Homeschool or classroom learning. Race through the swamp while facing math challenges and meeting funny swamp creatures along the way.
Math Skills: Addition, subtraction, odds and evens
Math Island!
Children practice essential math facts with two 10-sided number dice and an operation die that creates varied equations, helping them develop quick mental math skills. The exciting volcano popper launches dice when players land on special spaces, adding a thrilling element that keeps children asking to play again.
Math Skills: Addition, subtraction, odds and evens
Sums in Space
Target the fundamental building blocks of math with this engaging math game. Cooperative Game Rules allow your child to learn how to communicate and work together as a team while pursuing a common goal. Or choose to play the classic competitive version for a fast-paced race to the finish. The Cooperative rules feature three difficulty levels to ensure your child can play when they are still learning and remain interested as a review.
Math Skills: Addition and subtraction, comparing numbers, and odds and evens
Clumsy Thief Jr.
A hilarious and engaging matching math card game where kids practice adding to 10 while stealing food stacks. Fast-paced fun that helps build confidence and sharpen math skills. Match two cards to add up to 10, stack food, and use Thief and Trap cards to steal and protect stacks. The fast-paced gameplay keeps all players actively adding, snatching, and strategizing.
Math Skills: Addition, number pairs that equal ten
Ready for the next level? Check out Clumsy Thief in the Candy Shop (adding to 20) and Clumsy Thief (adding to 100).
Pet Me
Pet Me is an exciting math board game. Kids go on a pet park adventure, feed dogs, cats and parrots, win hearts and adopt them. They will master multiplication and division facts along the way. A very cool and fun game that builds mental math skills.
Math Skills: Multiplication and division
Proof!
Great brain game training to improve creative mental math skills. Practice multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and square roots. Chosen for optimal fun, with more easy-to-use lower numbers. Some larger numbers and prime numbers are excluded. Adaptable rules for younger players and solo play, too. Takes just 15 minutes to play.
Math Skills: Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square roots
Prime Climb
Perfect STEM gift for pre-teens and teens to inspire deeper math learning. Easy to learn, and endlessly replayable, thanks to dynamic mix of strategy and luck. Learn and master multiplication, division, factorization and prime number concepts by combining colors.
Math Skills: multiplication, division, factorization, and prime numbers
Money Bags
Players collect, count, and exchange money all the way to the finish line. Learn valuable money skills through fun game play. Includes game board with spinner, 100 plastic coins, play bills, markers, and dice.
Math Skills: Money basics, addition, subtraction, exchanging change
Arctic Riders
Enjoy a fun, engaging, and interactive math experience with Artic Riders, a kids math game that allows players to practice working with upper-level double-digit addition and subtraction problems. Arctic Riders helps develop decision-making skills as players roll the dice and determine how many spaces to move each narwhal pawn, based on where the treat tokens are on the board game.
Math Skills: Double-digit addition and subtraction
Shape Whiz
Shape Whiz helps develop observational, visual, spatial & association skills. This educational math game is for developing quick thinking skills as all players are racing to play a matching card before the other players. Through engaging gameplay, this learning game for kids ages 10 and up will explore geometric shapes, angles, and properties, building a strong foundation in geometry while having a blast!
Math Skills: Geometric shapes, angles, perimeter, and area.
Want more gameschooling ideas?
If your family is loving the spark that games bring to learning, you’ll find even more inspiration inside my Bookish Adventure Guides. Each guide pairs your read-aloud with thoughtfully chosen board games that echo the themes of the story, turning your homeschool into a fully immersive adventure. It’s one of my favorite ways to make learning feel like play, weaving books, conversation, and laughter together. Ready to add more delight to your homeschool days? Take a peek at the guides and discover the games that will bring your stories to life.
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