Are Your Students Ready for Some Super Fun Video Games-Themed Math Puzzles?

Kids love playing video games.

Whether it's on X-Box, Nintendo Switch, or a Smart Phone, your students are likely enjoying playing some sort of video game in their free time.

Sharing your enthusiasm for video games is a great way to build relationships with your kids—plus you can channel that enthusiasm towards math learning activities!

So go ahead and share today's video game-themed math puzzles with your kiddos! It makes for a great warm-up or cool-down activity to get your kids to practice applying logic, reasoning, and order of operations.

Why? Because kids love fun (and 100% free) math puzzles!

The following video game-themed math puzzles for elementary and middle school students are samples from my best-selling PDF math workbook: The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

The puzzles are tiered by difficulty using the following color system used in the book.

Pink Level (Grades 1-2) | Blue Level (Grades 3-4) | Green Level (Grades 5-6+)

Free Video Games Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6+

(answer keys to follow)

Pink Level Puzzle ( for Grades 1-2)

Free Math Resources: Astronomy Day Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6

Blue Level Puzzle (for Grades 3-4)

Free Math Resources: Pet-Themed Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6

Green Level Puzzle (for Grades 5-6+)

Wait! Do You Want More Fun Math Puzzles to Share with Your Kids??

If you and your students like these pet-themed puzzles, then you should definitely get yourself a copy of the new book, which shares over 300 kid-friendly, differentiated, and printable math puzzles and activities!

It covers differentiated topics including:
-addition and subtraction
-multiplication and division
-order of operations
-inverse operations
-adding and subtracting fractions
-multiplication tables
-area models
-math writing activities

And the book includes a really cool Make Your Own Math Puzzle hands-on activity requiring only scissors and glue to complete.

It also includes a complete answer key and several useful templates.

Take a Look Inside

You can access the entire Table of Contents by clicking here.

And you can click the links below to access some sample pages:

Pink Level Samples (for Grades 1 and 2): Sample A | Sample B

Blue Level Samples (for Grades 3 and 4): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

Green Level Samples (for Grades 5 and 6+): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

There are three puzzles per page and they include the familiar name/date/directions sections that are included in typical math worksheets, which makes them easier to print and share aswarm-up and exit-ticket activities, in lesson plans, and as extra credit and homework assignments.

Get Your Math Puzzles

Click here to get your copy of The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

And check out the solutions to the pet-themed puzzles below:

Pink Level (Grades 1-2): Nintendo Switch=3, Pacman=10, Gameboy=5, ?=8

Blue Level (Grades 3-4): Nintendo Switch=11, Pacman=11, Gameboy=9, X-Box Controller=16, ?=176

Green Level (Grades 5-6+): Nintendo Switch=6, Pacman=6, Gameboy=17, X-Box Controller=76, ?=224

Sharing video game math challenges and puzzles with your students is just one effective strategy for boosting engagement in your classroom. Subscribe to our mailing list here to get more free daily resources, lesson plans, ideas, and insights for K-12 math teachers in your inbox every week.