Bring the fun of bingo to your classroom, birthday party, or family game night with these free printable blank bingo cards.Â
Games
Looking for a good way to pass the time? Check out these handy dots game printable templates for the classic pencil and paper game.
Check out these free printable tic tac toe templates. Your students will love challenging one another to get three in a row.
The Ghost Game is a fun two player game which involves coloring in or covering up ghosts arranged in a 5 x 5 grid. The player that colors in the last ghost loses.
Looking for a quick game for the fall or Halloween season? Picking Pumpkins is a game for two players. The game is easy to understand, quick to play, and full of mathematics to analyze. Picking Pumpkins Instructions Picking Pumpkins is a game for two players. On your turn, you may pick any number of pumpkins …
The game of sim is an easy-to-learn pencil and paper game of drawing lines and avoiding triangles. Unlike many other similar pencil and paper games, there is always a winner!
Need a first day of school activity for your math class? These fun number contests will engage your students, force them to reason and collaborate together, and add a fun dose of competition to the first day. The first day of school here in my part of Oklahoma has come and gone. I have now …
The Slam Dice Game is fast-paced and easy to learn. It’s a fun game for groups with the added twist of having no clear winner but one definite loser.
Circle Tic Tac Toe is a fun twist on classic tic-tac-toe that is played on a circular grid. Having 3 different ways to win makes this game fun and engaging!
Tired of regular, old tic tac toe? Take things up a notch with this free printable PDF template for Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Challenge your students, friends, or family with this strategic twist on the classic game.
Discover the thrilling Martinetti Dice Game which is easy to learn and only requires 3 standard dice and basic playing pieces such as bingo chips or game pawns. Get ready for a fun and engaging dice game! I love to teach my high school students to play dice games, so I am always on the …
Left Center Right was first published by George & Company LLC in 1992. It is an entirely luck-based dice game for groups of three or more players. I received a copy of the game several years ago for a gift, and I have been using it in my math classroom ever since then! I have …
I ran across the game of Wild Tic Tac Toe while researching Tic Tac Toe variants for my classroom. Wild Tic Tac Toe is the same as regular tic tac toe, except that on your turn you may place either an X or an O – your choice – in an empty cell. If this …
What happens when you combine tic tac toe with a dice game? I was excited to discover this Tic Tac Toe Dice game in the book Dice Games by John Belton and Joella Crambit (1976). I was so excited about it that I typed up a PDF version to use with my students before I …
I created this divisibility rules dice game several years ago to give students practice with using divisibility rules. To play the game, students need to be able to determine if numbers are divisible by 2, 3, 5, 9, or 10. I used this game with 9th graders enrolled in “Math Concepts,” a course designed for …
I was super excited to discover a mathematical variation of tic-tac-toe. Instead of playing with Xs and Os, Numerical Tic Tac Toe is a game of evens vs odds. I printed the even and odd numbers on different colors of paper to make it super clear which numbers belong to each person. You might have …
A few weeks ago, I posted the Tic Tac Toe Challenge for my students to tackle. After students solved the puzzle, they often ended up using the grid on the board to play regular tic tac toe. The puzzle only uses X’s, so students would end up drawing in the O’s with a dry erase …
This Pi Day Dice Challenge was inspired by a twitter post from Texas Math Teacher. I created a free downloadable template that can be used to host a Pi Day Dice Challenge Tournament in your own classroom. Just add dice! I decided to take the idea and run with it. I created a template to …
Have you heard of Proof!? Proof! is the brainchild of Master Theorem Games and promises to be “the fast-paced game of mental math magic.” My husband and I received a copy of Proof! for Christmas, and we set down several weeks ago to give it a play. I knew instantly that it needed to make …
Everyone knows how to play tic-tac-toe. But can you solve the tic tac toe challenge puzzle? This fun brain teaser is simple to explain, but it can be hard to solve!
I’m back today with a new puzzle, Tic Tac Total. This puzzle, unlike the Pair Ups Puzzle I shared recently, can easily be applied to the distance learning classroom. It’s from the same excellent book Test Your Math IQ by Steve Ryan. I was able to borrow the book for free from the Internet Archive’s …
I’m super intrigued by this variant of Tic-Tac-Toe called Tic-Tac-Toe Squared from Giant Book of Puzzles and Games by Sheila Anne Barry. This is another book that you can borrow from the Internet Archive’s Open Library for free. If you love using puzzles in your classroom, I get a lot of my puzzle making inspiration …
For the past two years, the Train Game (20 Express by Blue Orange Games) has been my go-to 2nd day of school activity. I’ve mentioned it on my blog before, but I’ve never written an entire blog post explaining it fully. I’ve got so much I want to blog about and so little time to …
I ran across an interesting vintage math puzzle on eBay recently. I’ve never heard of Tigo Puzzles, but I definitely want to know more now! The eBay listing is no longer active, but I did save the images posted by the seller. Apparently this book of Tigo Puzzles is based on Tigo, a unique new …
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Elizabeth Mays, the creator of the Absolute Zero Card Game to ask if I would be willing to review the game on my blog. If you’ve been around my blog much at all, you know that I love math games and puzzles, so I jumped at the …