Dr. Mike's Math Games for Kids' web site has printable sudoku puzzles that can be used as a homework project. Students can customize their sudoku puzzles, choosing whether the puzzles should read up and down or diagonally, and there are five skill levels. Students can also choose to print a solutions page for the puzzles. Teachers can tell students to go home and create a puzzle, solve it and bring it back to class, or the students can print out puzzles with solution sheets, bring them to class, and trade the puzzles with classmates. Students can solve them at home and grade each others' puzzles using the solution sheets the next day.
Students can create their own Traffic Jam Math Game from Dr. Mike's site. Teachers can print the PDF pages and have kids take them home to cut out the game board and cars. Students can also play this game online. The instructions are on the web site. The goal is to rearrange the cars one space at a time to get the red car to drive off the top of the board. Dr. Mike's has several other printable math games that would also be appropriate for homework projects.
Discovery Education has a site that allows users to create word searches, cryptograms, crosswords, number blocks, math squares and maze puzzles. These can be printed and played. Users can create unique games. The word search puzzles, for instance, can have up to 40 letters across and down. Homework can involve making and solving the puzzles.
Math Court is a geometry game older students can make at home. The game, created by TheMathLab, comes in seven skill levels. Students print a game board and playing pieces at home. Jefferson County Schools (See Resources) has a unique program that lets students create their own board games. The board games are in Word format, and images and text can be added to personalize them. Nine formats are offered, from bingo boards to spokes, and printable spinners and dice are also available.