Math bingo cards are simple to make and can be used for any grade level. Create the cards in your word processing program as a five by five grid. Make sure the grid is completely square when you print out the boards. Next, have younger students fill in the spaces with the numbers between 1 and 10 and read off simple addition and subtraction math problems. For older kids, have them number off the rows with higher numbers, such as 1 through 100 and use complex multiplication, division and, for high school students, algebra problems.
It is important that students gain the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers quickly. Once this skill is obtained, word problems and formulas are much easier to solve. Help your students improve their time using math drill cards. Make a deck of cards with four cards of each numeral zero through 10. Next, pass out the cards to the kids with the first round giving only two cards to each player. The child that shouts out their sum first wins. Continue passing out more cards each round until all the cards have been handed out. The child that won the most rounds wins the game.
Preschool kids have a shorter attention span for games and less memory when it comes to game rules, but they can still have fun using a game for learning to count. Number nine index cards with the numerals one through nine and place them in a bag. Draw or print out a caterpillar with 30 to 40 spaces. Each child draws a number from the bag and uses a crayon to color in the indicated number of spaces on the caterpillar. The child who colors the last space wins.
Teach early adders to add numbers in their minds by asking the students to draw two numbers from a fish bowl. They add the two numbers together and mark the sum on their game board. The first person to mark off five sums in a row wins.