This is a really neat game invented in 1967 by two mathematicians that was soon after published in Scientific American, where it caught fire with people all over the world. It’s a very simple game with a lot of interesting…
Sprouts Math Game
Category: Math Games
Hex
Hex is a super fun game! It starts with a grid of hexagons (six-sided shapes) and two players. You can color in any cell on your turn. The ultimate goal is to be the first one to complete a chain…
Magic Squares
Magic squares have been traced through history as known to Chinese mathematicians, Arab mathematicians, India and Egypt cultures. The first magic squares Magic squares have fascinated people for centuries, and historians have found them engraved in stone or metal and…
Bagels
This is one of my family’s favorites! It’s a guessing game, but you can use logic and strategy in order to guess the numbers very quickly. In this video, I’ll show you in more detail how it works. I’ll also…
Dictionary
If a friend had chose a three-letter word and asked you to guess it, how would you start? It seems like it might take a while to narrow it down, right? This is a neat word guessing game that uses…
Tic Tac Toe
The first folks to play this game lived in the Roman Empire, but it was called Terni Lapilli and instead of having any number of pieces (X or O), each player only had three, so they had to move them…
Don’t Make a Triangle
This is a cool two-player geometry game with lots of strategy involved. You’ll need paper and two different colored markers or crayons. The object is not to draw a triangle (or to force your opponent to draw one). Take a…
Easy Dice Game for Honing Math Skills
Did you know I carry a set of dice in my pocket just for this game? It’s as old as the hills and just as fun to play now as it was when I was a little math whiz back…