MATH GAME FREEONLINE · MATH CHARM

Free math games online for kids, to play with a parent or a friend. No worksheets here. Only games that make you want to think. Play for a while, and math starts to look different.

Kakooma: A five-tile flower where 8 is the sum of 3 and 5

Kakooma

Ages 6+
Find the number that is the sum (or product) of two others. First to the goal wins.
  • Addition
  • Multiplication
  • Odd and even
  • Race
The math inside
Sprouts: A line joins two dots and a new dot sprouts on it

Sprouts

Ages 6+
Two players take turns joining dots. A new dot grows on the line. Each dot allows three lines. Whoever plays last wins.
  • Topology
  • Graph theory
  • Counting
  • Winning strategy
  • Strategy
The math inside
Franco maze: A 9 by 9 board with 30 walls and one open path from start to finish

Franco maze

Ages 6+
Each of you builds a maze for the other, then walks it blind. Hit a wall and you lose the whole turn. First to the finish wins.
  • Graph theory
  • Parity
  • Manhattan distance
  • Logic
  • Memory
The math inside
Ultimate tic-tac-toe: An X in the top-right cell of a small board sends the other player to the top-right board

Ultimate tic-tac-toe

Ages 5+
Every cell of the big board hides a small tic-tac-toe. The cell you play sends your opponent to that board.
  • Recursion
  • Fractals
  • Part and whole
  • Strategy
The math inside
Penny Wise: Put down 10 cents: taking back 7 is fine, taking back 10 is not

Penny Wise

Ages 6+
Put a coin down, take back a little less in change. The last one holding coins wins.
  • Making change
  • Coin systems
  • Greedy algorithm
  • Multiplayer
The math inside

Five games

MATH GAME FREE is five free math games in the browser, for ages 5 and up. Two to six players, on one screen or online. Nothing to download, no ads, and no account required.

Where these games come from

Sprouts was invented in 1967 by John Conway and Michael Paterson at the University of Cambridge. That year is written in a 1991 Carnegie Mellon report, Computer Analysis of Sprouts. Kakooma was invented by Greg Tang. His first Kakooma Puzzles book came out in 2010, and Scholastic published editions in 2012. Sprouts on Wikipedia.