Watch your child’s math skills excel as she masters basic math facts with speed and accuracy! Make a copy of one of the Math Facts Practice Sheets and time your child as she completes the page. Then, a few days later, challenge her to beat her own time!

Or, add to the fun for two or more children with the use of this Follow the Math Path! Game Board. Use coins or game pieces from a board game as markers. As players take a turn, another player calls out a problem from one of the Math Facts Practice Sheets. If the player answers correctly, she moves her marker forward two spaces. If she answers incorrectly, she moves her marker backward one space. The player whose marker reaches the end of the path first—wins!

Build your child’s overall math skills and number sense with this fun-to-play guessing game! Try a few of these Guess My Number! Game Riddles to get started! Simply have your child read the clues, then solve to find the correct number! You can extend the game by creating more riddles for your child to solve. Or, for an extra challenge, encourage your child to try to create some number riddles of his own!

Review basic math facts with this fun-to-play swimming game! Purchase an inexpensive set of numbered diving rings or diving sticks (these are usually numbered 1-10). Then, next time you take your child swimming, throw the rings into the pool and encourage him to dive in, grab two of the rings or sticks, and come up to the surface. Have him look at the numbers on the rings and add, subtract, multiply or divide them to solve simple math sentences!

Variation: Don’t have easy access to a pool? No problem! Simply turn the game into an outdoor racing game instead! Just scatter the diving rings on the lawn and have your child run across the yard to retrieve two rings at a time! As soon as he returns to the starting point with the rings, encourage him to solve a simple math sentence using the two numbers on the rings! Or, for an even cooler version of the game that beats the summer heat, set up a fan-spray sprinkler that your child must run through on his way to and from retrieving the rings! Kids will enjoy the challenge of solving the problems as they dash back and forth through the cool, sprinkling water—over and over again!

Use sidewalk chalk to draw a hopscotch court with 26 spaces. Beginning with the space nearest to the starting point, write one letter of the alphabet—from A to Z—in each space. Have children take turns rolling a small rock or pebble onto the court and hopping to the space on which the rock has landed. Once a child has hopped to the space, encourage her to name three words that begin with the letter that is written in the space.

Variation: As a challenge for older children, have them name words that end with the letter written in the space!