https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/ This feed shows what's new on Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids en-us Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:22:32 +0000 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:22:32 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/copyright.html https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/hex-hopper.html Hex Hopper offers a challenging solitaire puzzle that will stretch your strategic thinking. Inspired by the classic puzzle Conway's Soldiers, you aim to move pieces across a hexagonal grid, hopping over adjacent pieces to reach as far as possible! Each move requires careful planning, as you can only jump over pieces into empty spaces beyond, with the goal of advancing higher on the grid. Challenge yourself to reach new heights and see how far you can go! You can read more here, or here's a direct link to the game. See how you go, and share your score to challenge your friends! ]]> Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:22:32 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/daily-hex-flood.html The Daily Hex Flood Puzzle gives you a new strategy puzzle every day for you to warm up those brain cells. Transform the grid of hexagons so that the whole grid is a single color. Challenge yourself to beat your best score (he game keeps track of all your stats), and challenge your friends to see how well they do! You can read more here, or here's a direct link to the game!]]> Sat, 21 May 2022 07:36:36 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/dr-mikes-times-tables-game.html Dr Mike's Times Tables Game is professionally printed version of the times tables board game elsewhere on this site. Instead of spending heaps of time cutting and pasting, you can just order this game online, and in no time have your kids moving their playing pieces around the double-printed board, quizzing each other on times tables with the colorful question cards. You actually get 3 games in 1, because the instruction manual explains two other games you can play with the same boxed set!]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:31:45 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/dice-of-destiny.html Dice of Destiny is two games in one! There's a simple game (Dice War) for kindy or pre-K kids to learn counting, and the much more complicated battle game that it morphed into when I was play-testing Dice War with my (pre-teen, not pre-K) son. All you need is some dice and (for the complex game for older kids) a pack of ordinary playing cards. Read the rules of Dice of Destiny here, and have a quick game now!]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:52:49 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/hex-flood.html Hex Flood is a simple game you can play right in your web browser! The goal is to fill the entire grid with a single color. There are 1893 different puzzles for you to try, with fifteen different grid shapes. The web page will (using cookies) keep track of your best score for each and every puzzle, so you can challenge yourself to improve. What are you waiting for? Click or tap through to Hex Flood now, and test your puzzle cracking skills!]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2018 12:08:33 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/find-the-cat.html In the Find The Cat Puzzle, a cat is hidden behind one of seven doors. You can open one door at a time, in order to try to find the cat. Unfortunately, every time you open a door, the cat moves - one step to the left or right. In what order should you open the doors, to guarantee you'll eventually catch the cat? My Find The Cat Puzzle Page hosts an interactive version of this puzzle you can play online, showing, at every step, your chances of having caught the cat so far. ]]> Sat, 07 Oct 2017 03:31:46 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/multiplayer-battleships.html Want to play Battleships with more than one player? You can! On this page, I've suggested how you can change the normal rules for the classic game Battleships, so a whole bunch of people can join in the fun. My Multiplayer Battleships page includes printable game grids so you can keep track of all your opponents, and a couple of suggestions for the rules, depending on what style of game your group likes. ]]> Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:45:34 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/truth-lies-logic-puzzle-generator.html You've met a group of people. Some always lie, some always tell the truth. Can you figure out who does what from the statements they make? This pages can provide you with an unlimited number of logic puzzles for your use and entertainment. Start with some easy ones, and when you've become more confident, ramp up the difficulty level. For each puzzle, the computer is able to check your answers. So, grab some logic puzzles now and start exercising your logical mind!]]> Sun, 05 Mar 2017 04:20:48 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/simple-logic-puzzle-generator.html Do you like Logic Puzzles? On this page, you can get a never-ending feast of brain-busting logic puzzles to train your logical thinking skills. In each puzzle, the police have rounded up some suspects in a crime. The evidence has given you some clues of the form If A is guilty, then B is innocent and so forth. There's only one conclusion - but what is it? Who goes free, and who will be detained? Only your logical brain can solve the mystery! Hop over to the Simple Logic Puzzle Generator and start cracking cases! Or cut and paste the puzzles to share them, with your friends!]]> Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:25:55 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/printable-latin-square-puzzle.html This is a printable puzzle based on Latin Squares. The goal is to arrange the colored shapes on the grid, following certain rules. For example, each row should have one of each shape, and one of each color. Likewise, each column. Click through to the puzzle page to get a full list of the rules, links to downloadable, printable puzzle boards, and ideas for how to play this game with an ordinary pack of playing cards!]]> Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:06:15 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/249-sided-polygon.html The 249 Sided Polygon Puzzle is not a single puzzle, but a whole bunch of pen-and-paper challenges packed into a single download. It was created by Mac Oglesby, a retired math teacher, who kindly sent it to me to make available to you. Grab a pen, and Download and print the puzzle sheet and see how many of the challenges you can crack.]]> Sun, 28 Aug 2016 09:06:59 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/knights-tour.html The Knight's Tour is a classic chess puzzle. You start by tapping or clicking the board to place a knight. Then you must move the knight around, visiting as many squares as possible, exactly once each. The squares on the board change color to show you where you've been, where you are, and where you can go next. There's also an Android version available; Drop by my Knight's Tour page and scroll down to find the play store links and QR code.]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 08:13:46 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/eight-queens-for-android.html In the Android Version of the 8 Queens Puzzle you start by trying to put four queens on a 4 by 4 chess board. Once you've solved this, you can unlock the 5 by 5 board and try to solve that too. Keep placing the maximum number of queens on each chessboard to unlock higher and higher levels! Grab your Android device and scan the QR code on this page to get the app.]]> Sun, 07 Aug 2016 12:58:25 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/eight-queens-puzzle.html The challenge of the Eight Queens Puzzle is to place eight queens on a chessboard, so that none of the queens are attacking any of the others. On my eight queens puzzle page, there's an online version of this game you can play on your computer of phone, right in your web browser. The game starts with a 4 by 4 board, and you can work up to harder and harder boards - or jump straight to the 8 by 8 board if you dare! Have a go now!]]> Sat, 30 Jul 2016 04:34:37 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/stomachion.html The Stomachion, or Ostomachion (literally Bone Fight) is a puzzle like the Tangram, but invented by the ancient Greeks. It has twice as many pieces, so there's many many more patterns it can be arranged into. Download and print yourself a set, and start by seeing how many ways you can form the pieces into a square!]]> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:49:23 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/tangram.html The Tangram Puzzle is a simple jigsaw puzzle that originated in China over 1000 years ago. Despite its apparent simplicity, there are a huge number of patterns the pieces can be arranged into. This site has a Printable Tangram Puzzle for you to download and cut out.]]> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:43:13 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/roman-attack.html In Roman Attack, you defend the world against an onslaught of numbers! The game helps you practise converting numbers between Roman form and the more usual "Arabic" form. The game has three subgames - converting Roman to Arabic, or Arabic to Roman, or a mixed attack of both conversions. The game tracks your high scores, so you can challenge yourself to improve every day. Try it now!]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:34:21 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/arith-attack.html Arith Attack is a game to train up your mental arithmetic skills. Arithmetic problems descend from the top of the screen, as you solve them you score points. The longer you play, the harder the problems get and the more points they're worth. There are seven sub-games; each individual operation can be practiced separately, or you can practice addition and subtraction together, or multiplication and division together, or all four operations at once. Have fun!]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:29:02 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/nine-tile-puzzle.html The Nine Tile Puzzle is a simple enough puzzle - download and print the puzzle tiles, then try to arrange them so that the symbols on the edges match. Sound simple? Try it then! There are almost 24 billion different ways to arrange the tiles, and only one solves the puzzle. ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2015 07:26:27 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/le-monde-grid-puzzle.html The Grid Of Sums is a puzzle game by the French newspaper "Le Monde." (They called it La Grille De Sommes.) You start with an empty grid, then you fill the cells one by one. Each cell gets filled with the sum of its neighbors. On my Le Monde 'Grid Of Sums' puzzle page you can read the rules in more detail, find a link to Le Monde's original video, download printable puzzle grids of many different shapes and sizes, and get ideas for variations on the original puzzle - including how to make it a two-player game!]]> Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:38:40 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/printable-space-birthday.html The Printable Space Birthday Worksheets lets you calculate how many years old you'd be if you were born on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn or Uranus. This site also has an Online Space Birthday Calculator, but the printable worksheets may be more useful in a classroom context.]]> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:51:13 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/your-name-in-tau.html Which is the "real" circle constant, pi or tau? Perhaps you'd like to Find your name in the base 27 digits of tau? A long long time ago I made a search engine for finding your name in pi. However, since then, there's been a movement claiming that math would be better if we used 2 times pi, or tau, instead. Whichever side of that debate you fall on, you can search for your name in tau and see how soon it appears!]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:34:44 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/space-birthday.html With the Space Birthday Calculator you can find out how many Jupiter years old you are or when your next Venus birthday is. Enter your birthday (and your friends' birthdays), and see how close you are to turning 21 in Mars years. Birthday information is stored on your local computer (as a 'cookie') so you don't need to enter the information over and over again each time you visit. The Space Birthday page also shows upcoming birthdays for a collection of famous scientists and celebrities. Why not organize a big space birthday party?]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:56:26 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/guess-my-number.html Can you Guess My Number? I've thought of a number. You have to guess it. I'll tell you if your guess is too big or two small. Sounds easy? What if I tell you that, in the medium, hard and insane versions of this game, my answers are sometimes wrong? That I might say your guess is too small, when it's actually too big? Or that it's too big, when it's actually 100% correct? You'll be amazed at how challenging the Number Guessing Game becomes with just a little bit of uncertainty about my answers!]]> Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:11:00 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/ups-game.html The UPS Game has a worksheet kids can customize with their friends' names. Once they've done that, the goal is to find a route that loops from the UPS office to each of their friends' houses in turn, before finally returning to the starting point. That's not too hard in itself - the challenge is to make the route as short as possible! Once the kids have finished that, this game comes with a bonus challenge - find a site for the grocery store that minimizes the total distance to each of the houses. That makes UPS Game two games in one!]]> Sat, 29 Nov 2014 04:10:48 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/alices-cross-number-puzzle.html Alice Oglesby's Cross-Number Puzzle is actually a crossword puzzle - but the clues are all arithmetic sums. How is that possible? Once you've worked out each sum on a calculator, you turn your calculator upside down, and each number becomes a letter. You can download and print Alice's puzzle, solve it, and then make your own upside-down calculator cross-number puzzle with the help of the long lists of calculator words linked from the puzzle page. ]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:20:09 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/tizits.html "What is it?" It's a Tizit!! A Tizit is an impossible figure, an optical illusion. On this site, I've uploaded 30 Tizit puzzles designed by retired math teacher Mac Oglesby. Download a Tizit, and you'll see a scattering of labeled dots, and instructions showing which ones to join. Join the dots carefully with a ruler, and an amazing, eye-twisting figure will appear. Get your kids to draw and color a Tizit now, then send me a copy of their mathematical artwork, so I can make a gallery of Tizits on this website!]]> Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:39:52 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/ogleboro-city.html The Goal of the OgleBoro mazes is to get from home to school - and back - obeying all the traffic signs along the way. The "no right turns" and "one way blocks" will have your pencil - and your brain - tying itself in knots! These puzzles are an awesome challenge for upper elementary kids. Download and print the mazes, and try them in your class today. ]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:49:22 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/dinosaur-discovery.html Not Math, But Awesome: My local museum had an exhibition recently, called Dinosaur Discovery - Lost Secrets of the Cretaceous. As part of the exhibition, they had prepared a special smartphone app (available for Android or iOS). You'd load the app, point your phone at some special barcodes, and you'd suddenly see a three-dimensional dinosaur pop out! On my own Dinosaur Discovery page you can read more about the exhibition, and also find links to download your own dinosaur barcodes, and the app you'll need to use them. I also made a short Dinosaur Discovery Video that you might like to see!]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:54:53 +0000 https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/april-fools-date-calculator.html The April Fool's Date Calculator worksheet lets kids calculate the date of April Fools Day for any year. It works like the Easter Date Worksheet - write the year in a box in the worksheet, copy numbers along arrows, and the date of April Fools appears at the end! Ok, in all seriousness - the real educational value in this worksheet - besides arithmetic practice - is to make kids wonder how on earth the worksheet manages to get the right date for April Fool's Day every time.]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:25:00 +0000