Mental math
Work it out in your head and pick the right answer: add, subtract, multiply and divide. A free game for grades 5 and 6.
How to play
- A sum appears: addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
- Your child picks the right answer out of three numbers.
- Each right answer on the first try wins a star. A game has 10 sums.
What your child learns
- Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers
- Multiplying up to 12 × 12
- Exact division
Examples from the game
- 47 + 38 = 85
- 92 − 57 = 35
- 12 × 7 = 84
- 96 ÷ 8 = 12
- 65 + 29 = 94
- 11 × 11 = 121
Parent and teacher card
- Age
- Ages 10 to 11
- Level
- Grades 5 and 6
- Topic
- Numbers and math
- Length
- 10 questions, about 5 minutes
- Skills
- Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers · Multiplying up to 12 × 12 · Exact division
- At home
- Ask your child to explain how they worked it out, for example 47 + 38 = 47 + 40 − 2. Explaining the method builds mental math.
- In class
- split pupils into two teams that answer in turn. Ask each pupil to explain how they found the answer.